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Poetic diction

Note 159 — Chapter V · ARCHAISM IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY

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Vide “The Dialect of Robert Burns,” by Sir James Wilson (Oxford Press, 1923), and for happy instances of beautiful words still lingering on in the Scots dialects, vide especially “The Roxburghshire Word-Book,” by George Watson (Cambridge, 1923).

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