Amusements of leisure hours : or, Poetical pieces, chiefly in the Scottish dialect / by the late Reverend John Skinner. To which is prefixed, a sketch of the author's life, with some remarks on Scottish poetry
1809, First Edition. Edinburgh : Printed by J. Moir and sold by S. Cheyne. Poor copy in the original paper boards; wear and tear as with age with some tape repair to the spine. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Item #313491
Physical description; 144 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; "To which is prefixed, a sketch of the Author's life, with some remarks on Scottish poetry" -- t.p. Includes index. Contents; A sketch of the author's life, with remarks on Scottisy poetry -- The Monymusk Christmas Ba'ing -- Tullochgorum, called by Burns, "The first of Scottish songs" -- John o' Badenyon -- The ewie wi' the crookit horn -- The Marquis of Huntly's reel -- The old man's song. Tune, Dunbarton's drums -- Still in the wrong, a song to its own tune -- Lizzy Liberty, tune, Tibby Fowler i' the glen -- The stipendless parson, tune, A cobbler there was, &c. -- The man of Ross, tune, Miss Ross's reel -- A song on the times, tune, Broom o' Cowdenknows -- Song on the Scotch militia, tune, Roy's wife of Ardevalich -- A familiar epistle to Captain R. B. &c. -- Epistle to a young bookseller -- An answer in kind to a letter from Portsoy -- On Burns's Address to a lousie on a lady's bonnet -- The owl and the ass, an innocent fable -- Remarks on a reply to the above -- An old prophecy of Thomas Rhymer's interpreted -- A letter to a friend, on giving up a farm -- On the French convention -- To the memory of a young gentleman, &c. -- To the memory of a worthy farmer -- A monumental inscription -- On a farmer's tombstone -- To a young clergyman on the death of his mother and brother -- On the author's much lamented deth, by Christian Milne of Footdee, Aberdeen -- On the death of Mrs Skinner at Berrybank, by the same hand -- A glossary. Subjects; Skinner, John (1721-1807). Scottish poetry. Genres; Biography. Poems.
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