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... humorous , that was both fully Scottish and fully contem- porary . This was Robert Fergusson , whose descriptive poems of Edinburgh life have a quality that most of Ramsay's verse lacks : Fergusson wove together the spoken dialects of ...
... humorous , that was both fully Scottish and fully contem- porary . This was Robert Fergusson , whose descriptive poems of Edinburgh life have a quality that most of Ramsay's verse lacks : Fergusson wove together the spoken dialects of ...
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... humorous trick ; the dog's eye view of man is carefully manipulated so as to enhance the satire without in the least idealizing or sentimentalizing the dogs . They go off at the end , ' rejoic'd they were na men , but dogs ' . ' The Twa ...
... humorous trick ; the dog's eye view of man is carefully manipulated so as to enhance the satire without in the least idealizing or sentimentalizing the dogs . They go off at the end , ' rejoic'd they were na men , but dogs ' . ' The Twa ...
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... humorous poems and in the abandonment to the moment of experience which we find celebrated in many of his best songs . Burns the song - writer was hardly represented in the Kilmarnock edition ; most of his songs were still unwritten ...
... humorous poems and in the abandonment to the moment of experience which we find celebrated in many of his best songs . Burns the song - writer was hardly represented in the Kilmarnock edition ; most of his songs were still unwritten ...
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