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... thing dirty or mean ; and must be a professed lover of one or more of the female sex . No haughty , self- conceited person , who looks upon himself as superior to the rest of the Club , and especially no mean - spirited , worldly mortal ...
... thing dirty or mean ; and must be a professed lover of one or more of the female sex . No haughty , self- conceited person , who looks upon himself as superior to the rest of the Club , and especially no mean - spirited , worldly mortal ...
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... thing original about him which shews me human nature in a different light from anything I have seen before . In short , the joy of my heart is to “ study men , their manners , and their ways ; " and for this darling subject , I ...
... thing original about him which shews me human nature in a different light from anything I have seen before . In short , the joy of my heart is to “ study men , their manners , and their ways ; " and for this darling subject , I ...
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... things , and told him I could not guess who was the Author of it , but that I thought it pretty clever . With a ... thing I know , she has made me compleatly miserable . - Never man lov'd , or rather ador'd , a woman more than I did ...
... things , and told him I could not guess who was the Author of it , but that I thought it pretty clever . With a ... thing I know , she has made me compleatly miserable . - Never man lov'd , or rather ador'd , a woman more than I did ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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