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... Scots , all contributed to the weakening of Scottish national culture . When in 1603 a Scottish king inherited the throne of England and came south to London to rule as king of both countries , the confusion in Scottish cultural life ...
... Scots , all contributed to the weakening of Scottish national culture . When in 1603 a Scottish king inherited the throne of England and came south to London to rule as king of both countries , the confusion in Scottish cultural life ...
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... Scots Dialect , the Candid Reader may be the more easily induced , through the Consid- eration thereof , to give some Charitable Grains of Allowance , if the Per- formance come not up to such a Point of Exactness as may please an over ...
... Scots Dialect , the Candid Reader may be the more easily induced , through the Consid- eration thereof , to give some Charitable Grains of Allowance , if the Per- formance come not up to such a Point of Exactness as may please an over ...
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... Scots poems is Edin- burgh Scots with a dash of his parents ' Aberdeenshire ; he uses it with flexibility and verve , and with a sureness of taste quite lacking in Allan Ramsay . He wrote a fair number of English poems , too , but these ...
... Scots poems is Edin- burgh Scots with a dash of his parents ' Aberdeenshire ; he uses it with flexibility and verve , and with a sureness of taste quite lacking in Allan Ramsay . He wrote a fair number of English poems , too , but these ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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