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... produce a native Scottish poetry that was something more than merely rustic or bacchanalian or humorous , that was both fully Scottish and fully contem- porary . This was Robert Fergusson , whose descriptive poems of Edinburgh life have ...
... produce a native Scottish poetry that was something more than merely rustic or bacchanalian or humorous , that was both fully Scottish and fully contem- porary . This was Robert Fergusson , whose descriptive poems of Edinburgh life have ...
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... producing literature in English as good as the English themselves could produce . They looked for ' elegance ' and ' sensibility ' . They had in large measure adopted the cult of feeling represented by that arch - sentimental novel ...
... producing literature in English as good as the English themselves could produce . They looked for ' elegance ' and ' sensibility ' . They had in large measure adopted the cult of feeling represented by that arch - sentimental novel ...
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... produced . In refurbishing old songs , making new ones out of frag- mentary remains , using an old chorus as a foundation for a new song , and sometimes simply touching up a set of characterless old words , as well as providing entirely ...
... produced . In refurbishing old songs , making new ones out of frag- mentary remains , using an old chorus as a foundation for a new song , and sometimes simply touching up a set of characterless old words , as well as providing entirely ...
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