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... Fergusson's Scots poems is Edinburgh Scots with a dash of his parents ' Aberdeenshire ; he uses it with flexibility ... Fergusson are all qualities to be found to some degree in Ramsay and to a great degree in Burns . Fergusson drew his ...
... Fergusson's Scots poems is Edinburgh Scots with a dash of his parents ' Aberdeenshire ; he uses it with flexibility ... Fergusson are all qualities to be found to some degree in Ramsay and to a great degree in Burns . Fergusson drew his ...
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... Fergusson , Burns was to some degree taken up by the literati , and in studying his work and his literary career we have to take this fact into consideration . Fergusson , aloof from the literati yet as well educated as they , had no ...
... Fergusson , Burns was to some degree taken up by the literati , and in studying his work and his literary career we have to take this fact into consideration . Fergusson , aloof from the literati yet as well educated as they , had no ...
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... Fergusson . Scottish literature has always had a particular aptness for handling animal stories : Robert Henryson in ... Fergusson's ' Mutual Complaint of Plainstanes and Causey ' , which , like “ The Twa Dogs ' , was written in ...
... Fergusson . Scottish literature has always had a particular aptness for handling animal stories : Robert Henryson in ... Fergusson's ' Mutual Complaint of Plainstanes and Causey ' , which , like “ The Twa Dogs ' , was written in ...
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