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... Ramsay's Tea- Table Miscellany ( 1724 ) achieved great popularity . But the success was mostly with folk - song and imitation folk - song , much less with reprints of the complex and artful poetry of the medieval Scottish poets . As for ...
... Ramsay's Tea- Table Miscellany ( 1724 ) achieved great popularity . But the success was mostly with folk - song and imitation folk - song , much less with reprints of the complex and artful poetry of the medieval Scottish poets . As for ...
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... Ramsay's verse lacks : Fergusson wove together the spoken dialects of Edin- burgh ( where he was born and lived ) ... Ramsay and , to a greater extent , of Fergusson ( he wrote in one of his letters of the excellent Ramsay and the still ...
... Ramsay's verse lacks : Fergusson wove together the spoken dialects of Edin- burgh ( where he was born and lived ) ... Ramsay and , to a greater extent , of Fergusson ( he wrote in one of his letters of the excellent Ramsay and the still ...
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... Ramsay and Fergusson , while the language is the spoken language of Ayrshire enlarged by words from southern English and others from the older Scots literary tradition . Even more purely in the Scottish literary tradition is " The Death ...
... Ramsay and Fergusson , while the language is the spoken language of Ayrshire enlarged by words from southern English and others from the older Scots literary tradition . Even more purely in the Scottish literary tradition is " The Death ...
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