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8 CONTENTS •* CHAPTER VII The Gentle Shepherd; Scottish Idyllic Poetry; Ramsay's Pastorals— 1725-30 . . .85 CHAPTER VIII Resting on his Laurels ; Builds his Theatre ; his Book of Scots Proverbs— i^zo-^o . . -97 CHAPTER IX Closing Years of Life; his House on Castlehill; HIS Family ; his Portraits— 1740-58 , .112 CHAPTER X Ramsay as a Pastoral Poet and an Elegist . 122 CHAPTER XI Ramsay as a Satirist and a Song-Writer . . 144 CHAPTER XII Ramsay's Miscellaneous Poems ; Conclusion . . 154
ALLAN RAMSAY CHAPTER I THE FAMILY TREE ' Ye'd better let me gang doon wi' the wig, Miss Kirsty,' said Peggy, the * serving-lass ' in the household of Mr. James Ross, writer, of the Castlehill. 'Oh no ! I'd as leif take it doon mysel' to Allan Ramsay's, for the sake o' the walk and the bit crack wi' the canty callant,' replied the young lady, a blush crimsoning her fair, rounded cheek. And Peggy would retire from these periodical but good-humoured passages-at-arms, with a knowing smile on her face, to confide the fact, mayhap,—of course as a profound secret,—to her cronies in the same stair, that Miss Kirsty Ross was 'unco ta'en up wi' that spruce genty wigmaker, Maister Allan Ramsay, doon ayont the Tron Kirk.' Yea ! verily, it was a love drama, but as yet only in the first scene of the first act. The ' Miss Kirsty ' of the brief dialogue recorded above—for the authenticity of which there is abundant evidence—was Miss Christian Ross, eldest daughter of Mr. James Ross, a lawyer of some repute in his day, whose practice lay largely in the
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ALLAN RAMSAY 59 week by week, was o
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ALLAN RAMSAY 63 always ready to rec
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ALLAN RAMSAY 67 and is obviously an
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ALLAN RAMSAY 69 Not he wha whilome
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ALLAN RAMSAY 71 University of Edinb
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ALLAN RAMSAY 73 originality with re
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ALLAN RAMSAY 75 religious life of t
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ALLAN RAMSAY 77 did to dissipate th
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ALLAN RAMSAY 79 But in 1724 our poe
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ALLAN RAMSAY 8i cated to the Duke o
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ALLAN RAMSAY 83 conclusion of Dunba
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CHAPTER VII 'the gentle shepherd';
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ALLAN RAMSAY 87 since the Idylls of
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ALLAN RAMSAY 89 attempt to deprecia
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ALLAN RAMSAY 91 the beauties withou
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ALLAN RAMSAY 93 Marot, with his Com
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ALLAN RAMSAY 95 (great-grandson of
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CHAPTER VIII RESTING ON HIS LAURELS
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ALLAN RAMSAY 99 The year 1728 had v
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ALLAN RAMSAY loi drawing of The Gen
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ALLAN RAMSAY 103 most notable perso
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ALLAN RAMSAY 105 Storemasters of th
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ALLAN RAMSAY 107 idea of becoming a
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ALLAN RAMSAY 109 which day they sha
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ALLAN RAMSAY 113 informed Mr. Rober
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ALLAN RAMSAY 115 should break doon
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ALLAN RAMSAY 117 own, but whose lib
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ALLAN RAMSAY 119 from scurvy in the
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ALLAN RAMSAY 121 represents him in
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ALLAN RAMSAY 123 Wood or of Patie B
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ALLAN RAMSAY 125 poems, however, oc
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ALLAN RAMSAY 127 distinctively nati
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ALLAN RAMSAY 129 The extravagances
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ALLAN RAMSAY 131 The girls then ent
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ALLAN RAMSAY 133 Blyther than Iambs
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ALLAN RAMSAY 135 Patie and Peggy ta
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ALLAN RAMSAY 137 aunt, in the fore
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ALLAN RAMSAY 139 general happiness,
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ALLAN RAMSAY 141 centor in Roman Ca
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ALLAN RAMSAY 143 also the one on th
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ALLAN RAMSAY 145 faults and foibles
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ALLAN RAMSAY 147 of his age. Like R
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ALLAN RAMSAY 149 To a soup^on of di
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ALLAN RAMSAY 153 noble panegyric on
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ALLAN RAMSAY 155 But here no beds a
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ALLAN RAMSAY 157 and he asks his co
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ALLAN RAMSAY 159 Not costly things,
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