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Page 66
... effects on my whole frame . " He talks of looking forward to death , quotes from Pope and from the Bible , and ... effect of physiological causes , it was also in some degree the result of frustrated ambition ; he was becoming more ...
... effects on my whole frame . " He talks of looking forward to death , quotes from Pope and from the Bible , and ... effect of physiological causes , it was also in some degree the result of frustrated ambition ; he was becoming more ...
Page 327
... effect ; & shall certainly have none in my pro- jected song to it . — It is not , however , a case in point with Rothemurche : there , as in " Roy's wife of Aldivaloch , ” a chorus , to my taste , goes well enough . As to the chorus ...
... effect ; & shall certainly have none in my pro- jected song to it . — It is not , however , a case in point with Rothemurche : there , as in " Roy's wife of Aldivaloch , ” a chorus , to my taste , goes well enough . As to the chorus ...
Page 335
... effect of awkward imitation of the antique , but in this poem ( as in many of Burns's songs where he ends the line with monosyllables such as “ O ” ) there is nothing of the synthetic folk element that we get in many of the nineteenth ...
... effect of awkward imitation of the antique , but in this poem ( as in many of Burns's songs where he ends the line with monosyllables such as “ O ” ) there is nothing of the synthetic folk element that we get in many of the nineteenth ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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