Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and Biographical of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writing, Volumen 3W. & R. Chambers, 1903 |
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... Scottish peasantry had already been admirably worked in by certain of his predecessors ; but it was left to Burns to bring it into high poetry . mere style he is , when writing in Scots , to be ranked with the great masters . No one ...
... Scottish peasantry had already been admirably worked in by certain of his predecessors ; but it was left to Burns to bring it into high poetry . mere style he is , when writing in Scots , to be ranked with the great masters . No one ...
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... Scottish tradition of popular songs , and take up old phrases and rhythms : He turned his charger as he spake Upon the river shore . ' O Brignall banks are fresh and fair ' was prob- ably suggested by the verse of ' Bothwell banks ...
... Scottish tradition of popular songs , and take up old phrases and rhythms : He turned his charger as he spake Upon the river shore . ' O Brignall banks are fresh and fair ' was prob- ably suggested by the verse of ' Bothwell banks ...
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... Scottish foe has fired his tent . ' And sudden , as he spoke , From the sharp ridges of the hill , All downward to the banks of Till , Was wreathed in sable smoke ; Volumed and fast , and rolling far , The cloud enveloped Scotland's war ...
... Scottish foe has fired his tent . ' And sudden , as he spoke , From the sharp ridges of the hill , All downward to the banks of Till , Was wreathed in sable smoke ; Volumed and fast , and rolling far , The cloud enveloped Scotland's war ...
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... Scottish Bench with the legal title of Lord Jeffrey , he rarely left Edinburgh or its neighbourhood , passing his time at his house in Moray Place or at his summer residence at Craig crook , which he had taken after his second marriage ...
... Scottish Bench with the legal title of Lord Jeffrey , he rarely left Edinburgh or its neighbourhood , passing his time at his house in Moray Place or at his summer residence at Craig crook , which he had taken after his second marriage ...
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... Scottish judge of that day could hardly escape . There can be no doubt that it was this profession of superiority , apart from political and personal antipathies , which irritated his more sensitive contemporaries ; but it must be con ...
... Scottish judge of that day could hardly escape . There can be no doubt that it was this profession of superiority , apart from political and personal antipathies , which irritated his more sensitive contemporaries ; but it must be con ...
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