...Life of Wallace " Burns is said to have read, and in a letter to Dr. Moore we find him saying — " The story of Wallace poured a tide of Scottish prejudice...till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest." The most popular poem of Hamilton's, however, is " The Last Dying Words of Bonnie Heck," his favourite...

...which, as Burns wrote in his autobiographical letter to Dr John Moore, "poured a Scottish prejudice in my veins which will boil along there till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest." There must have been many verse romances in Scots in the late Middle Ages, but few have survived. Sometimes...

...famous autobiographical letter to John Moore said: "The story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice in my veins which will boil along there till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest".4 Many other people have said much the same. It is by such means as these that the epic Scottish...

...in his autobiographical letter to John Moore: "The story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice in my veins which will boil along there till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest". And indeed it is very clear from the frequent invocation of Wallace, Bruce and the Scottish struggle...

...produced such a patriotic reaction in Burns. . ."the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice in my veins which will boil along there till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." Burns succeeded in distillin an essential Scottishness that reached oot tae aw levels o society, but...

...like a trumpet-blast, is best described by the words of Boberfc Burns : "The story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil...till the flood-gates of life shut, in eternal rest." To be praised by the bards was the supreme reward of Celtic heroes. What did death matter, in form...