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... Scots nor English was therefore capable of being employed as a medium in which the whole man could express himself in Scotland . Once there ceased to be a living Scots literary language , drawing nourishment from spoken Scots but trans ...
... Scots nor English was therefore capable of being employed as a medium in which the whole man could express himself in Scotland . Once there ceased to be a living Scots literary language , drawing nourishment from spoken Scots but trans ...
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... Scots poetic idiom than had been seen for some time : but he died at the age of twenty - four , leaving only a handful of promising Scots poems . Burns , whose ambitions as a poet in Scots were nourished by his reading of Ramsay and ...
... Scots poetic idiom than had been seen for some time : but he died at the age of twenty - four , leaving only a handful of promising Scots poems . Burns , whose ambitions as a poet in Scots were nourished by his reading of Ramsay and ...
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... Scots literature to handle traditional Scottish literary forms and stanza- patterns , particularly in descriptive and satirical verse , with assurance and cunning . From the oral folk tradition he learned a great deal about song rhythms ...
... Scots literature to handle traditional Scottish literary forms and stanza- patterns , particularly in descriptive and satirical verse , with assurance and cunning . From the oral folk tradition he learned a great deal about song rhythms ...
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