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... proper in its own sphere . The significance of Watson's Choice Collection has been already noted in connexion with the songs and ballads . It gave a powerful stimulus to Scottish poetry in general RAMSAY TO FERGUSSON . 3.
... proper in its own sphere . The significance of Watson's Choice Collection has been already noted in connexion with the songs and ballads . It gave a powerful stimulus to Scottish poetry in general RAMSAY TO FERGUSSON . 3.
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... editor . In 1724 he issued the first part of a most important collection of songs , The Tea Table Miscellany . Two other parts followed between that date and 1727 , and after a long interval a RAMSAY TO FERGUSSON . 5.
... editor . In 1724 he issued the first part of a most important collection of songs , The Tea Table Miscellany . Two other parts followed between that date and 1727 , and after a long interval a RAMSAY TO FERGUSSON . 5.
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... songs ; and all who have ever handled it with a historical object in view have had in consequence to lament the vagueness and meagreness of the infor- mation supplied . Nothing is told but the bare fact that a song is old , old with ...
... songs ; and all who have ever handled it with a historical object in view have had in consequence to lament the vagueness and meagreness of the infor- mation supplied . Nothing is told but the bare fact that a song is old , old with ...
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... songs , never of high merit , frequently of scarce moderate merit . Very often they simply weave into lyric measure the common sense of the conversation in which they are set ; and therefore they are , as Ramsay's lyrics are apt to be ...
... songs , never of high merit , frequently of scarce moderate merit . Very often they simply weave into lyric measure the common sense of the conversation in which they are set ; and therefore they are , as Ramsay's lyrics are apt to be ...
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... songs in many keys , odes and addresses on anniversaries and ceremonial occasions , all find their place in his works . Their merit also runs through a considerable range . The worst of them are very poor ; the best are far from raising ...
... songs in many keys , odes and addresses on anniversaries and ceremonial occasions , all find their place in his works . Their merit also runs through a considerable range . The worst of them are very poor ; the best are far from raising ...
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admirable afterwards Allan Ramsay Athelstaneford Auld ballad beauty better Blair blank verse bonny 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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