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... omitted from the Kilmarnock volume in order not to shock his genteel audience . He omitted ' The Ordination ' a brilliant satire on Ayrshire church politics in the same stanza as ' The Holy Fair ' and done with greater verve and ...
... omitted from the Kilmarnock volume in order not to shock his genteel audience . He omitted ' The Ordination ' a brilliant satire on Ayrshire church politics in the same stanza as ' The Holy Fair ' and done with greater verve and ...
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... omitted from the Kilmarnock volume his remarkable anarchist cantata , " The Jolly Beggars ' , in which he assembled a group of social outcasts and put into their mouths roaring songs of social defiance and swaggering independence ...
... omitted from the Kilmarnock volume his remarkable anarchist cantata , " The Jolly Beggars ' , in which he assembled a group of social outcasts and put into their mouths roaring songs of social defiance and swaggering independence ...
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... omitted in earlier editions ; also some unpublished letters . The biography is largely dependent on Currie's . THE LIFE AND WORKS , edited by A. Peterkin . 4 vols . Edinburgh ( 1815 ) . A revision of Currie's edition , with an attempt ...
... omitted in earlier editions ; also some unpublished letters . The biography is largely dependent on Currie's . THE LIFE AND WORKS , edited by A. Peterkin . 4 vols . Edinburgh ( 1815 ) . A revision of Currie's edition , with an attempt ...
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