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... Ramsay's lifetime . In his preface to the four- teenth edition , Ramsay wrote : Although it be acknowledged that our scors 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 four- teenth edition , Ramsay wrote : Although it be acknowledged that our scors 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 consider- able extent responsible . In Ramsay's original poetry we first see clearly the tradition which , for convenience , one might call the Hutcheson tradition - the tradi- tion of a polite , non - Scottish culture in ...
... Ramsay is to a consider- able extent responsible . In Ramsay's original poetry we first see clearly the tradition which , for convenience , one might call the Hutcheson tradition - the tradi- tion of a polite , non - Scottish culture in ...
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... Ramsay . He wrote a fair number of English poems , too , but these , like the English poems of Ramsay and many poems of Burns , have little distinction . It was as a Scots poet that he attained real stature , and as a Scots poet that he ...
... Ramsay . He wrote a fair number of English poems , too , but these , like the English poems of Ramsay and many poems of Burns , have little distinction . It was as a Scots poet that he attained real stature , and as a Scots poet that he ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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