And he made sure Thomson kept the Scots words in the song, arguing " There is a naievete, a pastoral simplicity, in a slight intermixture of Scots words and phraseology."
The knowledge I had in mathematics, gave me great assistance in acquiring their phraseology, which depended much upon that science, and music; and in the latter I was not unskilled.
I often lose patience, when, with a glowing imagination, I am giving expression to art and nature, he interferes with learned suggestions, and uses at random the technical phraseology of artists.