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... fact than the union of the Crowns , at any rate made a deeper and more permanent impression upon the literature of the smaller country . It was also different in its action . In the seven- teenth century the leading poets , such as Sir ...
... fact than the union of the Crowns , at any rate made a deeper and more permanent impression upon the literature of the smaller country . It was also different in its action . In the seven- teenth century the leading poets , such as Sir ...
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... fact , to have made Burns possible . Allan Ramsay was born in the parish of Crawford - moor , a lonely district of Lanarkshire , in 1686. He was of good family , claiming kinship with the Ramsays of Dalhousie- " Dalhousie of an auld ...
... fact , to have made Burns possible . Allan Ramsay was born in the parish of Crawford - moor , a lonely district of Lanarkshire , in 1686. He was of good family , claiming kinship with the Ramsays of Dalhousie- " Dalhousie of an auld ...
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... fact that a song is old , old with additions , or new - sometimes not so much as that . In what way recovered , or how old , or on what ground it was believed to be old , are questions to which there is no answer in Ramsay . He cannot ...
... fact that a song is old , old with additions , or new - sometimes not so much as that . In what way recovered , or how old , or on what ground it was believed to be old , are questions to which there is no answer in Ramsay . He cannot ...
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... fact that in 1736 he attempted to establish a theatre in Carrubber's Close . But all that appertained to the stage still stank in the nostrils of Scottish Presbyterianism ; the theatre was closed by order of the magistrates , and Ramsay ...
... fact that in 1736 he attempted to establish a theatre in Carrubber's Close . But all that appertained to the stage still stank in the nostrils of Scottish Presbyterianism ; the theatre was closed by order of the magistrates , and Ramsay ...
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... facts of Hamilton's life are , as is the case with so many Scottish poets , but obscurely known . He died in 1751 at a great age , but the exact date of his birth has not been discovered . He had been a soldier , but abandoned his ...
... facts of Hamilton's life are , as is the case with so many Scottish poets , but obscurely known . He died in 1751 at a great age , but the exact date of his birth has not been discovered . He had been a soldier , but abandoned his ...
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