The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer / With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes
by Robert Blair William Falconer James Beattie
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Chapters (45)
- The Poetical Works
- of Beattie, Blair and Falconer
- Beattie's Poetical Works
- The Life and Poetry of James Beattie
- The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius
- Book I
- Book II
- Miscellaneous Poems
- Ode to Hope
- Ode to Peace
- Ode on Lord Hay's Birthday
- The Judgment of Paris
- The Triumph of Melancholy
- Elegy
- Elegy, written in the year 1758
- Retirement
- The Hermit
- On the Report of a Monument to be erected in Westminster Abbey, to the Memory of a late Author (Churchill)
- The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes
- The Hares a Fable
- The Wolf and Shepherds. A Fable
- Song, in imitation of Shakspeare's "Blow, blow, thou winter wind"
- To Lady Charlotte Gordon, dressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet, with Plumes, &c .
- Epitaph: being part of an Inscription designed for a Monument erected by a Gentleman to the Memory of his Lady
- Epitaph on Two Young Men of the name of Leitch, who were drowned in crossing the River Southesk
- Epitaph, intended for Himself
- Poetical Works of Robert Blair
- The Life of Robert Blair
- The Grave
- A Poem, dedicated to the Memory of the late learned and eminent Mr William Law, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh
- Poetical Works of William Falconer
- The Life and Poetry of William Falconer
- The Shipwreck
- The Shipwreck: Introduction
- The Shipwreck: Canto I
- The Shipwreck: Canto II
- The Shipwreck: Canto III
- Occasional Elegy, in which the preceding narrative is concluded
- Miscellaneous Poems
- The Demagogue1
- A Poem, sacred to the Memory of His Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales
- Ode on the Duke of York's second departure from England as Rear-Admiral
- The Fond Lover a Ballad
- On the Uncommon Scarcity of Poetry in the Gentleman's Magazine for December last, 1755, by I. W., a sailor
- Description of a Ninety-Gun Ship
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