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Page 23
... literature , especially the folk literature , which Watson's Collection so clearly revealed , was manifesting itself in other ways , too . Well - born ladies of leisure began to write poems in Scots in the style of the older folk lyrics ...
... literature , especially the folk literature , which Watson's Collection so clearly revealed , was manifesting itself in other ways , too . Well - born ladies of leisure began to write poems in Scots in the style of the older folk lyrics ...
Page 24
... literature , conversation , and drink . He restored Scots literature to its natural place in the daily life of the people by associating it with the normal activities of the citizen . Ramsay's creative work is perhaps less important ...
... literature , conversation , and drink . He restored Scots literature to its natural place in the daily life of the people by associating it with the normal activities of the citizen . Ramsay's creative work is perhaps less important ...
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... literature ought to be ; it gave him an insight into the genteel taste of his day , and it in large measure formed his own taste in non - Scottish prose and poetry . Much of it he committed to memory , and in later years he was to strew ...
... literature ought to be ; it gave him an insight into the genteel taste of his day , and it in large measure formed his own taste in non - Scottish prose and poetry . Much of it he committed to memory , and in later years he was to strew ...
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