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... earlier collectors ; as in so many other fields , his work here represented the culmination of a tradition , not the birth of a new one . Eight years before Ramsay's death there was born in Edinburgh the poet who was to continue the ...
... earlier collectors ; as in so many other fields , his work here represented the culmination of a tradition , not the birth of a new one . Eight years before Ramsay's death there was born in Edinburgh the poet who was to continue the ...
Page 109
... earlier part of the poem has changed into a brisk , sharp- toned , satirical style . The indictment flashes forth with wit and point , and Burns achieves in octosyllables something of what Pope achieved . with the heroic couplet . The ...
... earlier part of the poem has changed into a brisk , sharp- toned , satirical style . The indictment flashes forth with wit and point , and Burns achieves in octosyllables something of what Pope achieved . with the heroic couplet . The ...
Page 129
... earlier poems , we see at once the tradition in which Burns was working : salt copestone - Lament in rhyme , lament in prose , Wi ' saut tears trickling down your nose ; Our Bardie's fate is at a close , Past a ' remead ; The last , sad ...
... earlier poems , we see at once the tradition in which Burns was working : salt copestone - Lament in rhyme , lament in prose , Wi ' saut tears trickling down your nose ; Our Bardie's fate is at a close , Past a ' remead ; The last , sad ...
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