Ramsay, Allan, Scottish poet, born in Crawford, Lanarkshire; bred a wig-maker; took to bookselling, and published his own poems, “The Gentle Shepherd,” a pastoral, among the number, a piece which describes and depicts manners very charmingly (1686‒1758).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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