there are quite a few of them
Reposted from
Association for Scottish Literature
Ellisland, 1791
Dear Sir:
Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution…
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Dear Sir:
Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution…
—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic
#BurnsNight
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