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...Robert C. Elliott Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 THE EARLY SCOTS MAGAZINE By ROBERTC. ELLIOTT The Scottish intellectual revival of the latter half of the eighteenth century sprang from what seem unlikely roots, for the years preceding...

... in English and Scots Literature to the End of the Year 1568. By FRANCISLEE UTLEY.Columbus, Ohio: The Graduate School of the Ohio State University, 1944. Pp. xii + 368. $4.00. The Crooked Rib is not the usual popular book about woman’s shortcomings or virtues, nor is it the stereotyped...

... century. The Scots Songs of Allan Ramsay: “Lyrick” Transformation, Popular Culture, and the Boundaries of the Scottish Enlightenment Steve Newman hat was the Scottish Enlightenment? In a pair of influential texts WAlasdair MacIntyre presents it as the tragic demise of a Scottish...

... storied past but separate from what Samuel Johnson called “general” society.4 Some collections produced in the north of England and Scot- land, however, offer different formulations. The less-known Herd, for instance, uses Scottish Enlightenment theories of sense and cognition to complicate...

...” school, named after Lecky’s use of the word, played down the miraculous causes and searched for natural ex- planations for all kinds of phenomena. Reginald Scot is the plain- est example of the rationalistic school, although West would empha- size the basic authoritative orthodoxy which he...

... with a cousin of yours who resides at Rome as secretary to a Scots gentleman of very ancient family. Your cousin and I have past many a good hour together, and I do assure you that I have not met with a more worthy accomplished gentleman. I have learnt much from him and shall ever retain...

... implications of vernacular speci city beyond the context of a narrowly 14 Samuel Beckett, “Dante . . . Bruno . Vico . . Joyce,” in Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment, ed. Ruby Cohn (New York: Grove, 15 “Synthetic Scots” is how MacDiarmid himself characterized the idiom...

...-Chaucerian school, scholars have made little or no attempt to study this poet or to define his relationship with Chaucer.2 The fact that the Testament is an announced sequel to the Troilus and Criscyde is well known,s but the nature of the Scot’s obligation to his master has escaped com...

... group of particular interest to him, “makars” (poets). He names twenty-three (both English and Scots) who are dead and one who is dying, and fears that he will be the next to go: Gud Maister Walter Kennedy In poynt of dede lyis veraly- Gret reuth it wer...

... reason-possibly the inhibiting influence of Calvinism- Scots thinkers played no conspicuous part in philosophical inquiry before the “Enlightenment” occurred in the eighteenth century. Francis Hutcheson, the first in the field, was followed by David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam...

... Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps and stiles, That lie between us and our hame. The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whistle. It is a sermon against neglecting the advice of one’s wife : 0 Tam...

... of St. John and his gentlemen, Charles, Laud, Strafford, Cottington, and the queen enter into a somewhat frenetic consultation on how to raise money for the wars against the Scots and other projects. The initial idea for this scene doubtless came from a paper presented...

... of Ireland and Scot- land by Arthur Young and Samuel Johnson. Trumpener places these surveys in the context of nationalist response and the formation of alternative rep- resentations of national time and space, and she makes deft use of the reso- nant trope of the bog in chapter 1 to register...

... individual authors) left unaccounted for in Duncan Introduction 405 the current historiography of British literature, notably the great suc- cession of eighteenth-century poetry in Scots that runs through Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, and Burns (whom Pittock makes...

... Manuscript (Dumfries, 1935), pp. 35-36; two versions in the An- drew Crawfurd MSS (Paisley Central Library MSS PC 1453-55), to be published by the Scot- tish Text Society in Andrew Crawfurd’s Collection of Ballads and Songs, ed. E. B. Lyle, vol. 2; a version from Margaret Reburn, an Irishwoman living...

... of the enounced; the Reaper is too far away in place and time, not an English singer, hard at work, too auton- omous (or too vulnerable in gender terms) to be approached inside the 23 Erse is “the term used for Irish Gaelic.” “The term is the Lowland Scots word for Irish,” sometimes “inaccurately” used...

... than the latter, but both have wide currency. On the primitive side of the ledger, a recurring legend regarding the Scots’ supposed cannibalism is telling. Saint Jerome had written that while in Gaul he had seen Scotsmen eat human esh, even though cattle were abundant. Moreover, they considered...

... the juice Scotch bear can mak us,          In glass or jug. (Burns 1787 : ll. 1–6) After the volume’s appearance Burns began to collect songs for James Johnson’s Scots Musical Museum (1787–1803), another songbook for a broader audience. He also wrote—or rewrote from songs he collected—many...