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Quotation from Essay on Burns by Thomas Carlyle
“His Songs are already part of the mother-tongue, not of Scotland only, but of Britain”
Essay on Burns, p. 42 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896))
After quoting Fletcher of Saltoun on making a nation's songs, Carlyle argues that Burns's songs are his most lasting influence.
Citation: "His Songs are already part of the mother-tongue, not of Scotland only, but of Britain" — Thomas Carlyle, Essay on Burns, p. 42 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896)). (id essay-on-burns-q7)
