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Page 148
... piece of gesturing for a genteel audience . We do not need the overt , sentimental moralizing of the second - to - last stanza to inform us that he has succumbed to his temptation to strike attitudes . The tone of the latter part of the ...
... piece of gesturing for a genteel audience . We do not need the overt , sentimental moralizing of the second - to - last stanza to inform us that he has succumbed to his temptation to strike attitudes . The tone of the latter part of the ...
Page 307
... piece of the 1793 edition . Two slight and uninteresting pieces follow- " On Seeing a Wounded Hare " and " Address to the Shade of Thomson " -and the next new poem is that fine description of Captain Grose which we have discussed in the ...
... piece of the 1793 edition . Two slight and uninteresting pieces follow- " On Seeing a Wounded Hare " and " Address to the Shade of Thomson " -and the next new poem is that fine description of Captain Grose which we have discussed in the ...
Page 335
... piece perfectly to its tune . All these monosyllabic line end- ings in Burns's songs help to reproduce the effect of ... piece ; but the melody rather than the words has kept it popular in Scotland . Another popular piece , also ...
... piece perfectly to its tune . All these monosyllabic line end- ings in Burns's songs help to reproduce the effect of ... piece ; but the melody rather than the words has kept it popular in Scotland . Another popular piece , also ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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