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tive, the 6 restorer of Scottishnational poetry. Certainly the poetical branch of thefamily tree had been in some danger of being lostaltogether—the clouds of obscurity had so gatheredround it—the sunshine of good fortune had so ceased toplay upon it. The lairds descendants appear to havebeen of… … i24 ART IN ENGLAND. a workman in Lord Hopetouns lead-mines, and theGentle Shepherd himself, as a child, employed asa washer of ore. Early in the last century he was inEdinburgh, a barbers apprentice. In 1712 he marriedChristina Ross, daughter of a legal practitioner in thatcity. In 1729 he had…
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