Note 48 — ON THE SCOTCH CHARACTER
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This may be in part the reason of the blunder they have made in laying so much stress on what they call the Cockney School in Poetry—as if the people in London were proud of that distinction, and really thought it a particular honour to get their living in the metropolis, as the Scottish ‘Kernes and Gallowglasses’ think it a wonderful step in their progress through life to be able to hire a lodging and pay scot and lot in the good town of Edinburgh.