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... Ramsay came from his native Lanarkshire to Edinburgh about 1700 and , with nothing but his enthusiasm and good humour to help him , developed from an obscure wigmaker's apprentice to be the ' Scottish Horace ' . About Ramsay's work as ...
... Ramsay came from his native Lanarkshire to Edinburgh about 1700 and , with nothing but his enthusiasm and good humour to help him , developed from an obscure wigmaker's apprentice to be the ' Scottish Horace ' . About Ramsay's work as ...
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... Ramsay's lifetime . In his preface to the fourteenth edition , Ramsay wrote : Although it be acknowledged that our SCOTS tunes have not lengthened variety of music , yet they have an agreeable gaiety and natural sweetness , that make ...
... Ramsay's lifetime . In his preface to the fourteenth edition , Ramsay wrote : Although it be acknowledged that our SCOTS tunes have not lengthened variety of music , yet they have an agreeable gaiety and natural sweetness , that make ...
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... Ramsay is to a considerable extent responsible . In Ramsay's original poetry we first see clearly the tradition which , for convenience , one might call the Hutcheson tradition - the tradition of a polite , non - Scottish culture in ...
... Ramsay is to a considerable extent responsible . In Ramsay's original poetry we first see clearly the tradition which , for convenience , one might call the Hutcheson tradition - the tradition of a polite , non - Scottish culture in ...
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