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Quotation from Essay on Burns by Thomas Carlyle
“Three gates of deliverance, it seems to us, were open for Burns: clear poetical activity; madness; or death”
Essay on Burns, p. 71 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896))
Having admitted he is not medically informed whether Burns could have lived longer, Carlyle names the possible ends of his crisis at Dumfries.
Citation: "Three gates of deliverance, it seems to us, were open for Burns: clear poetical activity; madness; or death" — Thomas Carlyle, Essay on Burns, p. 71 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896)). (id essay-on-burns-q9)
