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David Daiches. Meanwhile , Scottish folk - music was enjoying a revival . Collections of folk - airs appeared in large numbers , some- times with words , sometimes as dance tunes . It became a fashionable pastime among ladies and ...
David Daiches. Meanwhile , Scottish folk - music was enjoying a revival . Collections of folk - airs appeared in large numbers , some- times with words , sometimes as dance tunes . It became a fashionable pastime among ladies and ...
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... 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 contact with the main tradition , and his ...
... 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 contact with the main tradition , and his ...
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... collections , in addition to carrying out conscientiously his duties as exciseman . He remained , however , defensive and sensitive about his social position , for the slightest suggestion of condescension on the part of a social ...
... collections , in addition to carrying out conscientiously his duties as exciseman . He remained , however , defensive and sensitive about his social position , for the slightest suggestion of condescension on the part of a social ...
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