THE CAMBRIDGE, MASS. POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES BEATTIE. WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, BY REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY. NEW YORK: EVANS AND DICKERSON. PHILADELPHIA: LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO AND COMPANY. M.DCCC.LIV. CONTENTS. Page MEMOIR of Beattie, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce....... vii Song, in Imitation of Shakspeare's 'Blow, Blow, thou Epitaph on two young Men of the name of Leitch, who An Epistle to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Blacklock.............. To the Rt. Hon. Lady Charlotte Gordon, dressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet, with Plumes.... Anacreon, Ode XXII............. IV. V. VI. VII.. VIII. IX. X..... 194 198 205 210 216 223 229 Epitaph for a Sheriff's Messenger, written and published MEMOIR OF BEATTIE, BY THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. "Heard you that Hermit's strain from Scotia borne, The Pursuits of Literature. THE subject of this memoir was born on the 25th of October, 1735, at Laurencekirk, in the county of Kincardine, Scotland. His father, James Beattie, who kept a small shop in the village at the same time that he rented a little farm in the neighbourhood, was a man of considerable talents and acquirements:* his mother, too, was distinguished for her abilities. Our author, James, was the youngest of the six children of this respectable pair. After his father's decease, which happened when he was only seven years old, his mother, "At his leisure hours he cultivated the muses. A journal kept by him, as well as some specimens of his poetry, are still in the possession of his descendants. This last circumstance is the more worthy of being noticed, as it proves that Dr. Beattie derived his poetical turn from his father."Bower's Life of Beattie, 1804, p. 2. |