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Quotation from Essay on Burns by Thomas Carlyle
“We love Burns, and we pity him; and love and pity are prone to magnify”
Essay on Burns, p. 9 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896))
Carlyle warns readers, and himself, that affection may distort criticism, and says his interest in Burns is not only a critic's.
Citation: "We love Burns, and we pity him; and love and pity are prone to magnify" — Thomas Carlyle, Essay on Burns, p. 9 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896)). (id essay-on-burns-q2)
