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... least surprising that they approved Burns's ' Cotter's Saturday Night ' and " To a Mountain Daisy ' , but not ' Holy Willie's Prayer ' or the more abandoned of the songs . What is surprising is that a ploughman poet from Ayrshire should ...
... least surprising that they approved Burns's ' Cotter's Saturday Night ' and " To a Mountain Daisy ' , but not ' Holy Willie's Prayer ' or the more abandoned of the songs . What is surprising is that a ploughman poet from Ayrshire should ...
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... least of the traditions of Scottish ' art ' poetry both as they came to him through Fergusson and as he found them for himself in collections of older Scottish poetry . Though some significant areas of earlier Scottish poetry had not ...
... least of the traditions of Scottish ' art ' poetry both as they came to him through Fergusson and as he found them for himself in collections of older Scottish poetry . Though some significant areas of earlier Scottish poetry had not ...
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... least savagely ; the note of amusement is still there , but it is kindly now . The lady is restored to common humanity from whom she was dis- tinguished earlier in the poem . And the conclusion has a simple proverbial note : O wad some ...
... least savagely ; the note of amusement is still there , but it is kindly now . The lady is restored to common humanity from whom she was dis- tinguished earlier in the poem . And the conclusion has a simple proverbial note : O wad some ...
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