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( so that we have virtually no Scottish drama , in spite of the immense promise of Sir David Lyndsay's bold and humorous Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis ) , and the great abbeys and cathedrals were destroyed .
( so that we have virtually no Scottish drama , in spite of the immense promise of Sir David Lyndsay's bold and humorous Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis ) , and the great abbeys and cathedrals were destroyed .
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In a very short time Scottish patriotism , from being sternly Protestant , Whiggish and even antimonarchist , had become , at least in imagination , anti - Whig and Jacobite . Paradoxically enough , the lost Stuart line , which in the ...
In a very short time Scottish patriotism , from being sternly Protestant , Whiggish and even antimonarchist , had become , at least in imagination , anti - Whig and Jacobite . Paradoxically enough , the lost Stuart line , which in the ...
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becoming genuinely Scottish again , the second group , abandoning peculiarly Scottish characteristics ( such as the Scottish vernacular ) provincial and limiting their audience , wished to make the jump more directly .
becoming genuinely Scottish again , the second group , abandoning peculiarly Scottish characteristics ( such as the Scottish vernacular ) provincial and limiting their audience , wished to make the jump more directly .
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