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... descriptive poems of Edinburgh life have a quality that most of Ramsay's verse lacks : Fergusson wove together the spoken dialects of Edin- burgh ( where he was born and lived ) , Aberdeenshire ( where his parents came from ) and Fife ...
... descriptive poems of Edinburgh life have a quality that most of Ramsay's verse lacks : Fergusson wove together the spoken dialects of Edin- burgh ( where he was born and lived ) , Aberdeenshire ( where his parents came from ) and Fife ...
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... descriptive and satirical verse , with assurance and cunning . From the oral folk tradition he learned a great deal about song rhythms and the fitting of words to music . And out of his own Ayrshire speech , his knowledge of older Scots ...
... descriptive and satirical verse , with assurance and cunning . From the oral folk tradition he learned a great deal about song rhythms and the fitting of words to music . And out of his own Ayrshire speech , his knowledge of older Scots ...
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... descriptive poem in Spenserian stanzas describing with pious approval an even- ing in the life of a Scottish peasant family . The poem is modelled on Fergusson's " The Farmer's Ingle ' , ' but Burns is more pretentious than Fergusson ...
... descriptive poem in Spenserian stanzas describing with pious approval an even- ing in the life of a Scottish peasant family . The poem is modelled on Fergusson's " The Farmer's Ingle ' , ' but Burns is more pretentious than Fergusson ...
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