Specimens With Memoirs of the Less-Known British Poets
With an Introductory Essay,
By
The Rev. George Gilfillan. In Three Vols
Vol. III
Epigraph
ALLAN RAMSAY
Lochaber no more
Tho Last Time I came o’er the Moor
From ‘The Gentle Shepherd’—Act I., Scene II.
WILLIAM OLDYS
Song, occasioned by a Fly drinking out of a Cup of Ale
ROBERT LLOYD
The Miseries of a Poet’s Life
HENRY CAREY
Sally in our Alley
DAVID MALLETT
William and Margaret
The Birks of Invermay
JAMES MERRICK
The Chameleon
JOHN LANGHORNE
From ‘The Country Justice’
Gipsies
A Case where Mercy should have mitigated Justice
ALEXANDER ROSS
Woo’d, and Married, and a’
The Rock an’ the wee pickle Tow
RICHARD GLOVER
From ‘Leonidas,’ Book XII
Admiral Hosier’s Ghost
JAMES MACPHERSON
Ossian’s Address to the Sun
Desolation of Balclutha
Fingal and the Spirit of Loda
Address to the Moon
Fingal’s Spirit-home
The Cave
WILLIAM MASON
Epitaph on Mrs Mason
An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers
JOHN LOWE
Mary’s Dream
MISCELLANEOUS
Song
Verses, copied from the Window of an obscure Lodging-house, in the
neighbourhood of London
The Old Bachelor
Careless Content
A Pastoral
Ode to a Tobacco-pipe
Away! let nought to Love displeasing
Richard Bentley’s sole Poetical Composition
Lines addressed to Pope