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James Watson , Edinburgh printer and Scottish patriot with ( if we may believe his enemies ) Jacobite inclinations , brought out a book entitled A Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems Both Ancient and Modern , the first of ...
James Watson , Edinburgh printer and Scottish patriot with ( if we may believe his enemies ) Jacobite inclinations , brought out a book entitled A Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems Both Ancient and Modern , the first of ...
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This was the début of Scottish popular literature in London ; the collection was beautifully produced ... and dedicated to the late Queen'.8 Similar collections followed in Scotland , culminating in the Scots Musical Museum , of which ...
This was the début of Scottish popular literature in London ; the collection was beautifully produced ... and dedicated to the late Queen'.8 Similar collections followed in Scotland , culminating in the Scots Musical Museum , of which ...
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From this ' , wrote Gilbert , ' Robert collected a competent knowledge of ancient history ; for no book was so ... A further contribution to the reading of the Burns family was “ a small collection of letters by the most eminent writers ...
From this ' , wrote Gilbert , ' Robert collected a competent knowledge of ancient history ; for no book was so ... A further contribution to the reading of the Burns family was “ a small collection of letters by the most eminent writers ...
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