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The designs and ornaments of this volume are by Mr. Joseph Brown, and the printing from the press of Messrs. Morrison & Gibb, Edinburgh.
DAVID MASSON, LL.D. EMERITUS-PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED in grateful acknowledgment of kindly encouragement given in years long gone by, and of intellectual stimulus received from him by his former student ^ THE AUTHOR
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Page 11 and 12: The Family Tree ..... CONTENTS CHAP
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Page 15 and 16: ALLAN RAMSAY n and precepts discove
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Page 21 and 22: ALLAN RAMSAY 17 But to our narrativ
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Page 27 and 28: CHAPTER II HIS apprenticeship; a bu
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Page 37 and 38: ALLAN RAMSAY 33 But now a change ev
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Page 45 and 46: CHAPTER IV THE EASY CLUBj EARLY POE
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ALLAN RAMSAY 55 same in spite of th
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ALLAN RAMSAY 57 increased. Of cours
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ALLAN RAMSAY 59 week by week, was o
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ALLAN RAMSAY 6i A reliable gauge of
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ALLAN RAMSAY 63 always ready to rec
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ALLAN RAMSAY 65 in his tentative en
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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 in to rub salt into th
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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 151 Or if you affe
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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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