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Page 119
... Holy Fair , To spend an hour in daffin : Gin ye'll go there , yon runkl'd pair , We will get famous laughin At them this day . ' The stanza form , which is a simplified version of a very old Scottish form , used in ' Christ's Kirk on ...
... Holy Fair , To spend an hour in daffin : Gin ye'll go there , yon runkl'd pair , We will get famous laughin At them this day . ' The stanza form , which is a simplified version of a very old Scottish form , used in ' Christ's Kirk on ...
Page 188
... Holy Fair ' or ' Death and Doctor Hornbook ' or ' Holy Willie's Prayer ' ; but beside the ' Address to the Unco Guid ' we can without too much extravagance put some of the poems of Gray and Cowper . ' Holy Willie's Prayer ' - which was ...
... Holy Fair ' or ' Death and Doctor Hornbook ' or ' Holy Willie's Prayer ' ; but beside the ' Address to the Unco Guid ' we can without too much extravagance put some of the poems of Gray and Cowper . ' Holy Willie's Prayer ' - which was ...
Page 191
... Holy Willie call himself ' thy servant ' while confessing in bawdy detail to sordid acts of lust projects the irony to the point where it becomes immensely comic . Holy Willie does not remain long in the confessional mood ; the next ...
... Holy Willie call himself ' thy servant ' while confessing in bawdy detail to sordid acts of lust projects the irony to the point where it becomes immensely comic . Holy Willie does not remain long in the confessional mood ; the next ...
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