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... genteel Edinburgh society . Members of the Cape Club were all designated ' knights ' , and Fergusson , who had an excellent singing voice , became ' Sir Precentor ' on election . His convivial meetings with the Cape Club - and the ...
... genteel Edinburgh society . Members of the Cape Club were all designated ' knights ' , and Fergusson , who had an excellent singing voice , became ' Sir Precentor ' on election . His convivial meetings with the Cape Club - and the ...
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... genteel tradition of his time . There is certainly a far more profound understanding of the relation between the sexes in " The Ranting Dog , the Daddie O't ' , the poem he wrote for Jean when she bore his child out of wedlock , than in ...
... genteel tradition of his time . There is certainly a far more profound understanding of the relation between the sexes in " The Ranting Dog , the Daddie O't ' , the poem he wrote for Jean when she bore his child out of wedlock , than in ...
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... genteel taste of his time . If to the contemporary genteel reader in Edinburgh or London it was the latter aspect which most appealed , history joins with criticism in considering the former as representing the real Burns and the true ...
... genteel taste of his time . If to the contemporary genteel reader in Edinburgh or London it was the latter aspect which most appealed , history joins with criticism in considering the former as representing the real Burns and the true ...
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