Grant Wilson les reproduit dans the Poets and Poetry of Scotland.
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On trouvera The Last Dying Words of Bonny Heck dans le recueil de J. Ross, The Book of Scottish Poems.
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Seven Familiar Epistles which passed between Lieut Hamilton and the Author. Answer I, Edinburgh, July 10th 1719.
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Epistle to William Simpson.
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Choice Collection of comic and serious Scots Poems, both ancient and modern, by several hands, Edinburgh 1706-09-11.
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Voir l'article sur Ramsay dans the Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, et surtout la vie qui se trouve en tête de l'édition de ses œuvres de 1800 et qui est de Chalmers, l'auteur de Caledonia. Cette biographie est, selon l'expression de J. Ross, «la base de toutes celles qui l'ont suivie».
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Voir, dans l'édition de Ramsay d'Alex. Gardner, Remarks on the Genius and Writings of Allan Ramsay, p. XLIII. – Hill Burton. History of Scotland, tom VIII, p. 546.
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Notice dans le Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen.
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Voir dans les Reminiscences of old Edinburgh de Daniel Wilson, le chapitre VII du tom I: at the sign of the Mercury.
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«Il emprunta probablement ce titre au Gentle Shepherd de la XIIe Églogue du Shepherd's Calendar de Spenser» (Ramsay's Life, p. XXVII).
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The Life of Ramsay, p. XXXIX.
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Remarks on the Writings of Allan Ramsay, p. XLVI, dans l'édition d'Alex. Gardner.
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First Epistle to Lapraik.
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Christ's Kirk on the Green, Canto II.
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The Gentle Shepherd, Acte I, scène 2.
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The Gentle Shepherd, Acte I, scène I.
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Théocrite. Idylle i.
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Nous avons consulté, pour la vie de Fergusson, la notice très étendue du Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, et la biographie du poète par James Gray, en tête de l'édition de Fairbairn, etc., 1821.
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Peterkin. Life of Fergusson, prefixed to the London Edition of his poems, 1807.
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Braid Claith.
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The King's Birth-Day in Edinburgh.
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The Daft Days.
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The Sitting of the Session; the Rising of the Session.
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The Election.
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Hallowfair.
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Hallowfair.
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Hallowfair.
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Voir les cinq premières strophes des Leith Races.
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Like as a ship, that through the Ocean wydeDirects her course unto one certaine cost,Is met of many a counter winde and tyde,With which her winged speed is let and crost,And she her selfe in stormie surges tost;Yet, making many a borde and many a bay,Still winneth way, ne hath her compasse lost:Right so it fares with me in this long way,Whose course is often stayed, yet never is astray.The Faerie Queene, Book VI, Canto XXI, Stanza I.
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When gloamin' grey out-owre the welkin keeks;When Batie ca's his owsen to the byre;When Thrasher John, sair dung, his barn-door steeks,An' lusty lasses at the dightin tire:What bangs fu' leal the e'enin's coming cauld,An' gars snaw-tappit Winter freeze in vain,Gars dowie mortals look baith blithe an' bauld,Nor fley'd wi' a' the poortith o' the plain;Begin, my Muse! and chaunt in hamely strain.The Farmer's Ingle, Stanza I.
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The Farmer's Ingle.
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The Farmer's Ingle.
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The Farmer's Ingle.
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Gray. Remarks on the Writings of Fergusson, p. xxii.
