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... Scotch poems , which alone are worthy of consideration , show him to be a singer such as had not been known since the Elizabethan period . He has Shakes- peare's sympathy with all sorts and conditions of men ; he revives the long ...
... Scotch poems , which alone are worthy of consideration , show him to be a singer such as had not been known since the Elizabethan period . He has Shakes- peare's sympathy with all sorts and conditions of men ; he revives the long ...
Page 131
... Scotch peasant . He received a very irregular education , but read much and thought more about the great questions of liberty and social order that were troubling the minds of men in the years preceding the out- break of the French ...
... Scotch peasant . He received a very irregular education , but read much and thought more about the great questions of liberty and social order that were troubling the minds of men in the years preceding the out- break of the French ...
Page 132
... Scotch peasant life . Above all he is the poet of human love in all its phases , rejected , despairing , triumphant , or tenderly reminiscent . All of Burns's best work was done in his native Scotch dialect . His English poems are ...
... Scotch peasant life . Above all he is the poet of human love in all its phases , rejected , despairing , triumphant , or tenderly reminiscent . All of Burns's best work was done in his native Scotch dialect . His English poems are ...
Page 178
... Scotch Highlands . It proved the most successful , as it is certainly the most finished and charming , of his metrical romances . Scott's later poems , Rokeby , The Lord of the Isles , and others , show traces of decline . He seems to ...
... Scotch Highlands . It proved the most successful , as it is certainly the most finished and charming , of his metrical romances . Scott's later poems , Rokeby , The Lord of the Isles , and others , show traces of decline . He seems to ...
Page 185
... , resistless his spear , Till in peace and in triumph his toils he may drown , In a pledge to fair England , her Church , and her Crown . IO 15 20 THOMAS CAMPBELL - 1777-1844 THOMAS CAMPBELL , a Scotch poet WALTER SCOTT 185 The Cavalier.
... , resistless his spear , Till in peace and in triumph his toils he may drown , In a pledge to fair England , her Church , and her Crown . IO 15 20 THOMAS CAMPBELL - 1777-1844 THOMAS CAMPBELL , a Scotch poet WALTER SCOTT 185 The Cavalier.
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