The Poetical Works of James Beattie

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James Beattie. The Poetical Works of James Beattie

MEMOIR OF BEATTIE, BY THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE

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PREFACE TO THE MINSTREL

THE MINSTREL. BOOK I

THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I

THE MINSTREL. BOOK II

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 AMONUMENT ERECTED BY A GENTLEMANTO THE MEMORY OF HIS LADY

THE HERMIT

PIECES REJECTED BY THE AUTHORFROM THE LATER EDITIONSOF HIS POEMS

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.46

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.50. MELIBŒUS, TITYRUS

PASTORAL II.53. ALEXIS

PASTORAL III. MENALCAS, DAMŒTAS, PALÆMON.55

PASTORAL IV.58. POLLIO

PASTORAL V.60. MENALCAS, MOPSUS

PASTORAL VI.67. SILENUS

PASTORAL VII.79. MELIBŒUS, CORYDON, THYRSIS

PASTORAL VIII.82. DAMON, ALPHESIBŒUS

PASTORAL IX.88. LYCIDAS, MŒRIS

PASTORAL X.92

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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Having lately seen in print some poems ascribed to me which I never wrote, and some of my own inaccurately copied, I thought it would not be improper to publish, in this little volume, all the verses of which I am willing to be considered as the author. Many others I did indeed write in the early part of my life; but they were in general so incorrect, that I would not rescue them from oblivion, even if a wish could do it.

Some of the few now offered to the Public would perhaps have been suppressed, if in making this collection I had implicitly followed my own judgment. But in so small a matter, who would refuse to submit his opinion to that of a friend?

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Some of the few now offered to the Public would perhaps have been suppressed, if in making this collection I had implicitly followed my own judgment. But in so small a matter, who would refuse to submit his opinion to that of a friend?

It is of no consequence to the reader to know the date of any of these little poems. But some private reasons determined the author to add, that most of them were written many years age, and that the greatest part of the Minstrel, which is his latest attempt in this way, was composed in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight.

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