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... humorous critic of religion and politics , of human character , of the Scotland of his day . This is the Burns who wrote ' Holy Willie's Prayer ' , ' The Ordination ' , " The Twa Herds ' , ' The Holy Fair ' , and other satirical poems ...
... humorous critic of religion and politics , of human character , of the Scotland of his day . This is the Burns who wrote ' Holy Willie's Prayer ' , ' The Ordination ' , " The Twa Herds ' , ' The Holy Fair ' , and other satirical poems ...
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... humorous , that was both fully Scottish and fully contem- porary . This was Robert Fergusson , whose descriptive poems of Edinburgh life have a quality that most of Ramsay's verse lacks : Fergusson wove together the spoken dialects of ...
... humorous , that was both fully Scottish and fully contem- porary . This was Robert Fergusson , whose descriptive poems of Edinburgh life have a quality that most of Ramsay's verse lacks : Fergusson wove together the spoken dialects of ...
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... humorous poem moving adroitly towards a conclusion which is expressed with the gnomic pithiness of a country proverb . It begins with a sudden projection into the heart of the situation , as Burns addresses the louse he sees crawling on ...
... humorous poem moving adroitly towards a conclusion which is expressed with the gnomic pithiness of a country proverb . It begins with a sudden projection into the heart of the situation , as Burns addresses the louse he sees crawling on ...
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