Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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... Burns . This is not the place or the time to speak of the miracle called Shake- speare , but one must say a word of the miracle called Burns . Try and reconstruct Burns as he was a peasant born in a cottage that no sanitary inspector in ...
... Burns . This is not the place or the time to speak of the miracle called Shake- speare , but one must say a word of the miracle called Burns . Try and reconstruct Burns as he was a peasant born in a cottage that no sanitary inspector in ...
Page 1013
... Burns ' politics . From his sympathy for his own class , from his indignation against nobles like the Duke of Queensberry , and from the toasts that cost him so dear it might be considered easy to infer his political opinions . But Burns ...
... Burns ' politics . From his sympathy for his own class , from his indignation against nobles like the Duke of Queensberry , and from the toasts that cost him so dear it might be considered easy to infer his political opinions . But Burns ...
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... Burns one of his rare and competent literary judgments , so eulogistic , indeed , that one wondered that a powerful Minister could have allowed one he admired so much to exist on an exciseman's pay , when well , and an excise- man's ...
... Burns one of his rare and competent literary judgments , so eulogistic , indeed , that one wondered that a powerful Minister could have allowed one he admired so much to exist on an exciseman's pay , when well , and an excise- man's ...
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