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David Daiches. form of Scottish patriotism . In a very short time Scottish patriotism , from being sternly ... patriotic imagination on the romantic implica- tions of a lost cause ( and the Jacobite cause became romantic only ...
David Daiches. form of Scottish patriotism . In a very short time Scottish patriotism , from being sternly ... patriotic imagination on the romantic implica- tions of a lost cause ( and the Jacobite cause became romantic only ...
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... patriotic in its own way . Men like Adam Smith , David Hume , and Hugh Blair were not , in spite of all their attempts to purge their works of Scotticisms , in any sense ashamed of being Scots or eager to become Englishmen . They lived ...
... patriotic in its own way . Men like Adam Smith , David Hume , and Hugh Blair were not , in spite of all their attempts to purge their works of Scotticisms , in any sense ashamed of being Scots or eager to become Englishmen . They lived ...
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... patriotic emotion which follows is genuine enough , and the expression has a certain power in spite of its ... patriotic note , and in his final stanza seems to forget altogether the real theme of his poem : O Thou ! who pour'd the ...
... patriotic emotion which follows is genuine enough , and the expression has a certain power in spite of its ... patriotic note , and in his final stanza seems to forget altogether the real theme of his poem : O Thou ! who pour'd the ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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