A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter on the Poetry, Humour, and Literary History of the Scottish Language and an Appendix of Scottish Proverbs (Classic Reprint)

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In the year 1870, the author contributed tvm papers to Blackwood's Magazine on The Poetry and Humour of the Scottish Language. Those papa-s are here reprinted with such copious additions as have extended the work to more than treble its original dimensions. The whole has under gone careful revision and emendation, and will, it is hoped, be found tocontain not onlycharactexisticspecimensof the peculiar humour, but of the abounding poetical genius of the ancient and modern authors who have adorned the literature of Scotland from the days of Barbour, Douglas, and Mont gomerytothoseof Allan ramsay, bobert Burns, and Walter Scott, and down to our own times.

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