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Page 54
... farmer there developed a certain tension in the relations between father and son . " My father , as I said before , was the sport of strong passions : from that instance of rebellion he took a kind of dislike to me , which , I believe ...
... farmer there developed a certain tension in the relations between father and son . " My father , as I said before , was the sport of strong passions : from that instance of rebellion he took a kind of dislike to me , which , I believe ...
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... farmer there developed a certain tension in the relations between father and son . “ My father , as I said before , was the sport of strong passions : from that instance of rebellion he took a kind of dislike to me , which , I believe ...
... farmer there developed a certain tension in the relations between father and son . “ My father , as I said before , was the sport of strong passions : from that instance of rebellion he took a kind of dislike to me , which , I believe ...
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... Farmer's Ingle " of Fergusson , a more successful though a less ambitious poem . In expanding the scope of the work from a simple but moving picture of the Scottish farmer at home into a self - consciously moralistic poem , Burns has ...
... Farmer's Ingle " of Fergusson , a more successful though a less ambitious poem . In expanding the scope of the work from a simple but moving picture of the Scottish farmer at home into a self - consciously moralistic poem , Burns has ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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