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... English dialect ) began to give way more and more , in literary productions , to the English . 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 ...
... English dialect ) began to give way more and more , in literary productions , to the English . 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 ...
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... English prose style , which shows that Burns could handle standard English with perfect ease and confidence , and that it was the defects of his models , not any linguistic barrier , which made him often such a relatively poor performer ...
... English prose style , which shows that Burns could handle standard English with perfect ease and confidence , and that it was the defects of his models , not any linguistic barrier , which made him often such a relatively poor performer ...
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... English as proof of his thesis that ever since the end of the Middle Ages the Scot , because of the peculiar linguistic and cultural situation in which he found himself , has had to feel in Scots and think in English . But it would have ...
... English as proof of his thesis that ever since the end of the Middle Ages the Scot , because of the peculiar linguistic and cultural situation in which he found himself , has had to feel in Scots and think in English . But it would have ...
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