Selection From the Poetry of Robert Burns —— With Notes, Introduction, and Glossary

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ISBN: 9781330589922 出版年：2016 页码：161 Lois G Hufford Forgotten Books

To amuse himself with the little creations of his own fancy, amid the toil and fatigues of a laborious life; to transcribe the various feelings, the loves, the griefs, the hopes, the fears, in his own breast; to find some kind of counterpoise to the struggles of a world, always an alien scene, a task uncouth to the poetical mind,-these were his motives for courting the muses, and in these he found poetry to be its own reward.