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... express himself in Scotland . Once there ceased to be a living Scots literary language , drawing nourishment from spoken Scots but trans- cending it in richness of vocabulary , and there was no longer a literary norm against which the ...
... express himself in Scotland . Once there ceased to be a living Scots literary language , drawing nourishment from spoken Scots but trans- cending it in richness of vocabulary , and there was no longer a literary norm against which the ...
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... express his emotions of love , friendship or amusement or his ironic contemplation of the social scene . But these were not spontaneous effusions by an almost illiterate poet . Burns was a very conscious craftsman ; his entries in the ...
... express his emotions of love , friendship or amusement or his ironic contemplation of the social scene . But these were not spontaneous effusions by an almost illiterate poet . Burns was a very conscious craftsman ; his entries in the ...
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... express pained surprise , and he goes on to ask demurely : But will ye tell me , master Caesar , Sure great folk's life's a life o ' pleasure ? ... In order to show how foolish Luath is in making this pre- sumption , Caesar is led into ...
... express pained surprise , and he goes on to ask demurely : But will ye tell me , master Caesar , Sure great folk's life's a life o ' pleasure ? ... In order to show how foolish Luath is in making this pre- sumption , Caesar is led into ...
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