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" The Jolly Beggars, for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole range of English poetry. The scene, indeed, is laid in the very lowest department of low life, the actors being a... "
Select Scottish Songs, Ancient and Modern - Page 230
by Robert Hartley Cromek - 1810
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Poems, Volume 2

Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...present, suffice it to say, that for humorous description, and nice discrimination of character, it is inferior to no poem of the same length, in the whole 166 range of English poetry. — The recitative part is possessed of very considerable merit, but the...
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The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life ..., Issue 673, Volume 4

Robert Burns - 1816 - 468 pages
...present, suffice it to say, that for humorous description, and nice discrimination of character, it is inferior to no poem of the same length, in the whole range of English poetry The recitative part is possessed of very considerable merit, but the songs constitute its chief excellence...
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The Pocket magazine of classic and polite literature. [Continued as] The ...

1829 - 612 pages
...does not hesitate to assert that ' for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, it is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole...being a set of strolling vagrants, met to carouse, and harter their rags and plunder foi liquor, in a hedge ale-house. Yet even in describing the movements...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott: Biographical memoirs of ...

Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...most brilliant poetry. A cantata in particular, called " The Jolly Beggars," for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior...English poetry. The scene indeed is laid in the very lowestdepartment of low life, the actors being a set of strolling vagrants, met to carouse, and barter...
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Bibliotheca Burnsiana: Life and Works of Burns: Title Pages and Imprints of ...

James M'Kie - 1866 - 52 pages
...and other Pieces, appear here for the first time. "The ' Jolly Beggars,' for humorous description, and nice discrimination of character, is inferior...same length in the whole range of English Poetry." — WALTER SCOTT. Is not this the Edition CHAMBERS notices—" 1 2mo., Glasgow, 1801— W. M'MILLAN...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns,: Arranged in the ..., Volume 2

Robert Burns - 1871 - 692 pages
...recommendation to any collection. For humorous description, and nice discrimination of character, it is inferior to no poem of the same length, in the whole range of English poetry. The Recitative part is possessed of very considerable merit; but the Songs constitute its chief excellence....
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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns ...

Robert Burns - 1876 - 536 pages
...recommendation to any collection. For humorous description, and nice discrimination of character, it is inferior to no poem of the same length, in the whole range of English poetry. The Recitative part is possessed of very considerable merit; but the Songs constitute its chief excellence....
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The Bagford Ballads: Illustrating The Last Years of the Stuarts, Volume 1

Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1878 - 580 pages
...Heaven to fall. — Matthew Arnold's Scholar Gipsy. i "The Jolly Beggars, for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior...their rags and plunder for liquor in a hedge ale-house The extravagant glee and outrageous frolic of the beggars are ridiculously contrasted with their maimed...
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The poetical works of Robert Burns, ed. by C. Kent

Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 pages
...of " The Jolly Beggars," that " for humorous description and nice discrimination of character lit] is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole range of English poetry."] RECITATIVO. WHEN lyart leaves bestrew the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas'...
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The poetical works of Robert Burns, ed. by W.M. Rossetti. ed. by W.M ...

Robert Burns - 1879 - 566 pages
...chap-book in Glasgow in 1798. Sir Walter Scott says: — "'The Jolly Beggars,' for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior...their rags and plunder for liquor in a hedge alehouse. 1 Hurry. fi Glanced. 0 Celtic. 2 Smokinjj, ciothes. 6 Scolding wife. 9 Dodging. 3 Singed hair. 7 Lowland....
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