Three Centuries of Scottish Literature, Том 1Macmillan and Company, 1893 - 229 страница |
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... criticism . So too , Ramsay's serious elegies are hardly ever successful ; the only one indeed which can be called so is that on Newton , whose greatness Ramsay felt , and whom he mourns with dignity . He had not the neat- ness of ...
... criticism . So too , Ramsay's serious elegies are hardly ever successful ; the only one indeed which can be called so is that on Newton , whose greatness Ramsay felt , and whom he mourns with dignity . He had not the neat- ness of ...
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... critics for ranking Fergusson above Ramsay : " the excellent Ramsay and the still more excellent Fergusson , " are ... critic than the professors of criticism . Fergusson , in his poetry as in his life , is less sane and sensible than ...
... critics for ranking Fergusson above Ramsay : " the excellent Ramsay and the still more excellent Fergusson , " are ... critic than the professors of criticism . Fergusson , in his poetry as in his life , is less sane and sensible than ...
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... criticism which applies to Contemplation is equally true of the two odes To Fancy . They follow the same model still more closely than the former ; for Hamilton was one of the least original of poets . An instructive story is told with ...
... criticism which applies to Contemplation is equally true of the two odes To Fancy . They follow the same model still more closely than the former ; for Hamilton was one of the least original of poets . An instructive story is told with ...
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... criticism . He was born in 1700 , at Ednam , in Roxburghshire , where his father was minister . While he was still a boy he was " discovered " by Robert Riccaltoun , then a farmer , afterwards minister of Hobkirk , who encouraged and ...
... criticism . He was born in 1700 , at Ednam , in Roxburghshire , where his father was minister . While he was still a boy he was " discovered " by Robert Riccaltoun , then a farmer , afterwards minister of Hobkirk , who encouraged and ...
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... criticism to destroy his own boyish productions . It does not appear that he printed any specimens of his poetry prior to the publication in 1720 of some of his pieces in The Edin burgh Miscellany , a collection issued by the Athenian ...
... criticism to destroy his own boyish productions . It does not appear that he printed any specimens of his poetry prior to the publication in 1720 of some of his pieces in The Edin burgh Miscellany , a collection issued by the Athenian ...
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admirable afterwards Allan Ramsay Athelstaneford Auld ballad beauty better Blair blank verse Burns Burns's canto Castle of Indolence century character charm connexion conspicuous critics death Douglas Edinburgh English epistles fact Fergusson Fortunes of Nigel frae genius Guy Mannering Hamilton Helenore Highland humour imagination imitation John Home Kilmarnock volume language less lines literary literature Lockhart lyric Macpherson Mallet manner Marmion merit mind Minstrel native nature never novels o'er original Ossian passages perhaps picture piece poems poet poet's poetic poetry popular probably prose proved published Ramsay Ramsay's rank romance Ross satire scene Scotch Scotland Scott Scottish SCOTTISH LITERATURE Seasons sense sentiment Shanter Shepherd songs spirit stanzas storm style success taste thee Thomson thought tion true truth verse Waverley Waverley Novels whole William Burnes William Wilkie Wordsworth write written wrote
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