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vol. 1. and included a prefatory note that emphasised the author's preference for the 1746 edition. Millar may have referred to the 1744 edition because it was the first expanded version of
Thomson's famous poem, it sold quickly, and it may have helped to clarify for Millar that he owned the highly
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use of blank verse to use it for description and to give a meditative feeling. The critic
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