The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius / with some other poems

by James Beattie

THE
MINSTREL,
WITH
SOME OTHER POEMS.

THE
MINSTREL;
OR,
THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS.
WITH
SOME OTHER POEMS.

By JAMES BEATTIE, LL. D.

EDINBURGH:
PRINTED BY JAMES BALLANTYNE,
FOR WILLIAM CREECH, MANNERS AND MILLER,
AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO.
1805.

TO
SIR WILLIAM FORBES,
OF PITSLIGO, BARONET,
AS A MARK OF RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER,
AND AS AN APPROPRIATE TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE MOST
VALUED FRIENDS OF THE AUTHOR,
THIS EDITION
OF THE
POETICAL WORKS OF DR BEATTIE,
IS INSCRIBED
BY
THE PUBLISHERS.

CONTENTS.

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Page.
The Minstrel, Book I.	[1]
Book II.	[35]
Retirement	[71]
Elegy	[76]
Ode to Hope	[81]
Pygmæo-gerano-machia: The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes	[89]
Epistle to the Hon. C. B.	[101]
The Hares: A Fable	[105]
Epitaph: being Part of an Inscription for a Monument,to be erected by a Gentleman to the Memoryof his Lady	[118]
Ode on Lord H* * *’s Birth-Day	[119]
To the Right Hon. Lady Charlotte Gordon, dressed ina Tartan Scotch Bonnet, with Plumes, &c.	[125]
The Hermit	[127]
Ode to Peace	[130]
Triumph of Melancholy	[139]