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... learned at school . Neither Scots nor English was therefore capable of being employed as a medium in which the whole man could express himself in Scotland . Once there ceased to be a living Scots literary language , drawing nourishment ...
... learned at school . Neither Scots nor English was therefore capable of being employed as a medium in which the whole man could express himself in Scotland . Once there ceased to be a living Scots literary language , drawing nourishment ...
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... learned to read French and acquired a smattering of Latin , and he read most of the important eighteenth - century English writers as well as Shakespeare , Milton and Dryden . Indeed , his formal education was oriented entirely towards ...
... learned to read French and acquired a smattering of Latin , and he read most of the important eighteenth - century English writers as well as Shakespeare , Milton and Dryden . Indeed , his formal education was oriented entirely towards ...
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... learned from older Scots literature to handle traditional Scottish literary forms and stanza- patterns , particularly in descriptive and satirical verse , with assurance and cunning . From the oral folk tradition he learned a great deal ...
... learned from older Scots literature to handle traditional Scottish literary forms and stanza- patterns , particularly in descriptive and satirical verse , with assurance and cunning . From the oral folk tradition he learned a great deal ...
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