The Poetical Works of James Beattie
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 ...science shed o'er life a friendly light, Each art was nature. Spartan valour hence, At the famed pass,1 firm as an isthmus stood; And the whole eastern ocean, waving far As eye could dart its vision, nobly check'd. Of Marathon, my keen Athenians drove Before their ardent band an host of slaves. "Hence through the continent ten thousand Greeks Urged a retreat, whose glory not the prime Of victories...
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- THE POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES BEATTIE. WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, BY REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.
- CONTENTS.
- MEMOIR OF BEATTIE, BY THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.
- ADVERTISEMENT.
- PREFACE TO THE MINSTREL.
- THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I.
- THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK II.
- RETIREMENT.
- ELEGY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1758.
- ODE TO HOPE.
- ODE ON LORD HAY'S BIRTH-DAY.
- THE BATTLE OF THE PIGMIES AND CRANES. FROM THE PYGMÆO-GERANO-MACHIA OF ADDISON.
- THE HARES. A FABLE.
- EPITAPH: BEING PART OF AN INSCRIPTION DESIGNED FOR A MONUMENT ERECTED BY A GENTLEMAN TO THE MEMORY OF HIS LADY.
- THE HERMIT.
- THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS.
- ODE TO PEACE.
- THE TRIUMPH OF MELANCHOLY.
- ELEGY.
- ELEGY.
- THE WOLF AND SHEPHERDS. A FABLE.
- ON THE REPORT OF A MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, TO THE MEMORY OF A LATE AUTHOR.[A]
- SONG, IN IMITATION OF SHAKSPEARE'S 'BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND.'
- EPITAPH ON TWO YOUNG MEN OF THE NAME OF LEITCH, WHO WERE DROWNED IN CROSSING THE RIVER SOUTHESK, 1757.
- EPITAPH, INTENDED FOR HIMSELF.
- VERSES WRITTEN BY MR BLACKLOCK, OF A BLANK LEAF OF HIS POEMS, SENT TO THE AUTHOR.
- AN EPISTLE TO THE REVEREND MR. THOMAS BLACKLOCK.
- TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY, CHARLOTTE GORDON, DRESSED IN A TARTAN SCOTCH BONNET, WITH PLUMES.
- TRANSLATIONS.
- ANACREON. ODE XXII.
- THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST BOOK OF LUCRETIUS.
- HORACE. BOOK II. ODE X.
- HORACE. BOOK III. ODE XIII.
- THE PASTORALS OF VIRGIL.
- PASTORAL I.[1] MELIBŒUS, TITYRUS.
- PASTORAL II.[1] ALEXIS.
- PASTORAL III. MENALCAS, DAMŒTAS, PALÆMON.[1]
- PASTORAL IV.[1] POLLIO.
- PASTORAL V.[1] MENALCAS, MOPSUS.
- PASTORAL VI.[1] SILENUS.
- PASTORAL VII.[1] MELIBŒUS, CORYDON, THYRSIS.
- PASTORAL VIII.[1] DAMON, ALPHESIBŒUS.
- PASTORAL IX.[1] LYCIDAS, MŒRIS.
- PASTORAL X.[1]
- EPITAPH FOR A SHERIFFS MESSENGER; WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED AT THE PARTICULAR DESIRE OF THE PERSON FOR WHOM IT IS INTENDED.
- TO MR. ALEXANDER ROSS, AT LOCHLEE, AUTHOR OF THE FORTUNATE SHEPHERDESS AND OTHER POEMS IN THE BROAD SCOTCH DIALECT.
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