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... poetry in Scots shows clearly the dilemma of a Scottish poet working with one eye turned to a genteel London audience and the other to the rustic vulgarities of his own country . Scots verse became a dialect verse ΙΟ BURNS.
... poetry in Scots shows clearly the dilemma of a Scottish poet working with one eye turned to a genteel London audience and the other to the rustic vulgarities of his own country . Scots verse became a dialect verse ΙΟ BURNS.
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... audience . And the prose writers all wrote in English . David Hume , Adam Smith , William Robertson , and other Scottish philosophers , his- torians and men of letters whose work was known all over Europe , wrote in English , though ...
... audience . And the prose writers all wrote in English . David Hume , Adam Smith , William Robertson , and other Scottish philosophers , his- torians and men of letters whose work was known all over Europe , wrote in English , though ...
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... audience . In his preface he played up to contemporary sentimental views about the natural man and the noble peasant , exaggerated his lack of education , pretended to a lack of technical re- sources which was ridiculous in the light of ...
... audience . In his preface he played up to contemporary sentimental views about the natural man and the noble peasant , exaggerated his lack of education , pretended to a lack of technical re- sources which was ridiculous in the light of ...
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