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Drum- mond of Hawthornden ( 1585-1649 ) , though he spoke Scots , wrote all his poetry in English , and in this he is symbolic of what was happening to the nation , which continued to talk in Scots and to do its formal writing in ...
Drum- mond of Hawthornden ( 1585-1649 ) , though he spoke Scots , wrote all his poetry in English , and in this he is symbolic of what was happening to the nation , which continued to talk in Scots and to do its formal writing in ...
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I particularly remember one half - stanza which was music to my boyish ears - " For though in dreadful whirls we hung , High on the broken wave ” – I met with these pieces in Mason's English Collection , one of my school- books .
I particularly remember one half - stanza which was music to my boyish ears - " For though in dreadful whirls we hung , High on the broken wave ” – I met with these pieces in Mason's English Collection , one of my school- books .
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Then , in a most interesting transitional passage , the tone is suddenly changed , and the narrator , using standard English and talking with deliberate sententiousness , brings the cold world of reality into this warm atmosphere .
Then , in a most interesting transitional passage , the tone is suddenly changed , and the narrator , using standard English and talking with deliberate sententiousness , brings the cold world of reality into this warm atmosphere .
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