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... Edinburgh life and described them in a verse which combined liveliness , a sure and crafts- manlike use of imagery ... Edinburgh lives with all its warmth and colour in such poems as " The Daft Days ' , " The King's Birthday in Edinburgh ...
... Edinburgh life and described them in a verse which combined liveliness , a sure and crafts- manlike use of imagery ... Edinburgh lives with all its warmth and colour in such poems as " The Daft Days ' , " The King's Birthday in Edinburgh ...
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... Edinburgh that Fergusson had known and celebrated . Burns can have had little time for writing poetry while he was being lionized in Edinburgh . The lively and amusing ' Address to a Haggis ' is one of the few good vernacular poems ...
... Edinburgh that Fergusson had known and celebrated . Burns can have had little time for writing poetry while he was being lionized in Edinburgh . The lively and amusing ' Address to a Haggis ' is one of the few good vernacular poems ...
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... Edinburgh edition , with its imposing list of subscribers ( printed against Burns's wish - he had to pay for those thirty - seven pages of printing - but on the insistence of some of his Edinburgh friends ) and its equally imposing ...
... Edinburgh edition , with its imposing list of subscribers ( printed against Burns's wish - he had to pay for those thirty - seven pages of printing - but on the insistence of some of his Edinburgh friends ) and its equally imposing ...
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