Beauties of the Scottish poets, or Harp of Renfrewshire, a collection of songs and other poetical pieces, with notes, and a short essay on the poets of Renfrewshire [by W. Motherwell. Re-issue of the harp of Renfrewshire, with cancel title-leaf]. |
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Page ix
The Poets of Renfrewshire have neither been few , in respect of numbers . nor
contemptible , in regard to merit . Although none of them have ever risen far
above mediocrity , yet their performances have been such , as to entitle their
names to ...
The Poets of Renfrewshire have neither been few , in respect of numbers . nor
contemptible , in regard to merit . Although none of them have ever risen far
above mediocrity , yet their performances have been such , as to entitle their
names to ...
Page xvii
Contemporaneous with Montgomerie , was his friend Robert Sempill , a more
voluminous , but by no means so good or so popular a poet . It has been said
elsewhere , that this Robert Sempill was a titled personage ; but it is right to
mention in ...
Contemporaneous with Montgomerie , was his friend Robert Sempill , a more
voluminous , but by no means so good or so popular a poet . It has been said
elsewhere , that this Robert Sempill was a titled personage ; but it is right to
mention in ...
Page xviii
It is admitted at once , that there is no direct mention made in any writer of Sempill
the poet being Lord Sempill , or that that ... Moreover , it never hath been the
custom to give poets any titles , save those which serve to mark their peculiar ...
It is admitted at once , that there is no direct mention made in any writer of Sempill
the poet being Lord Sempill , or that that ... Moreover , it never hath been the
custom to give poets any titles , save those which serve to mark their peculiar ...
Page xxxiii
But even in regard to Tannahill , since his songs have given him a name in the
lyric poetry of his country , it becomes a matter of curiosity to note every minute
feature of his mind , and to record every outbreaking of his genius . No person we
...
But even in regard to Tannahill , since his songs have given him a name in the
lyric poetry of his country , it becomes a matter of curiosity to note every minute
feature of his mind , and to record every outbreaking of his genius . No person we
...
Page xlii
We must have done , however , with this dangerous topic , and remember the
advice of the poet : Periculosae plenum opus aleae Tractas , & incendis per
igneis Suppositos cineri doloso . The sensibility of Tannahill appears to have
been ...
We must have done , however , with this dangerous topic , and remember the
advice of the poet : Periculosae plenum opus aleae Tractas , & incendis per
igneis Suppositos cineri doloso . The sensibility of Tannahill appears to have
been ...
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| Title | Beauties of the Scottish poets, or Harp of Renfrewshire, a collection of songs and other poetical pieces, with notes, and a short essay on the poets of Renfrewshire [by W. Motherwell. Re-issue of the harp of Renfrewshire, with cancel title-leaf]. |
| Author | Renfrew county |
| Editor | William Motherwell |
| Contributor | Scottish poets |
| Published | 1821 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2006 |
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