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... Fergusson wove together the spoken dialects of Edin- burgh ( where he was born and lived ) , Aberdeenshire ( where ... Fergusson ( he wrote in one of his letters of the excellent Ramsay and the still more excellent Fergusson ' ) imitated ...
... Fergusson wove together the spoken dialects of Edin- burgh ( where he was born and lived ) , Aberdeenshire ( where ... Fergusson ( he wrote in one of his letters of the excellent Ramsay and the still more excellent Fergusson ' ) imitated ...
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... Fergusson and as he found them for himself in collections of older Scottish poetry . Though some significant areas of earlier Scottish poetry had not been made available by eighteenth - century editors , Burns was nevertheless in ...
... Fergusson and as he found them for himself in collections of older Scottish poetry . Though some significant areas of earlier Scottish poetry had not been made available by eighteenth - century editors , Burns was nevertheless in ...
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... Fergusson's " The Farmer's Ingle ' , ' but Burns is more pretentious than Fergusson and displays too clearly his object of showing off the Scottish peasantry for the approval and edification of men of feeling in Edinburgh . The poem ...
... Fergusson's " The Farmer's Ingle ' , ' but Burns is more pretentious than Fergusson and displays too clearly his object of showing off the Scottish peasantry for the approval and edification of men of feeling in Edinburgh . The poem ...
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