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...types of society who scramble for tankards, calling Fill, Fill, Fill. Poets seek inspiration; ballad singers exercise their villanous yelping throats. Lawyers, usurers,...
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...a dog s bark suggests the complaint of damned ghosts in hell, and he that is spiced wyth the gowte or the dropsie dreams of fetters and manacles. This theory had...
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...held at Glasgow in 1911. The poetry called forth by the Stewart cause will be found in Hogg s Jacobite relics of Scotland (1819–21), and Mackay s Jacobite songs and...
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