The Harp of Renfrewshire: A Collection of Songs and Other Poetical Pieces (many of which are Original) Accompanied with Notes, Explanatory, Critical, and Biographical, and a Short Essay on the Poets of Renfrewshire |
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This essay , hastily thrown together though it be , and notwithstanding it pretends
as little to give the former , as it does to set aside completely the necessity of the
latter , will , in some measure , supply the deficiency complained of , until ...
This essay , hastily thrown together though it be , and notwithstanding it pretends
as little to give the former , as it does to set aside completely the necessity of the
latter , will , in some measure , supply the deficiency complained of , until ...
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As closely as possible to chronological order , we now proceed to give the names
, and what little we know , of the poets of Renfrewshire . Sir Hugh Montgomerie of
Eglinton is the first whom we meet with in this enquiry . He was lineally ...
As closely as possible to chronological order , we now proceed to give the names
, and what little we know , of the poets of Renfrewshire . Sir Hugh Montgomerie of
Eglinton is the first whom we meet with in this enquiry . He was lineally ...
Page xiii
... uprightness , and good sense . It required but the rousing eloquence and
energetic fearlessness of Knox and others of the Calvinistic school , to give them
nerve , and urge them on to action against , and revolt from every monastic
institution ...
... uprightness , and good sense . It required but the rousing eloquence and
energetic fearlessness of Knox and others of the Calvinistic school , to give them
nerve , and urge them on to action against , and revolt from every monastic
institution ...
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Moreover , it never hath been the custom to give poets any titles , save those
which serve to mark their peculiar excellencies : all other trappings are
derogatory to the might and majesty of their simple sirname . No one , even in our
own days ...
Moreover , it never hath been the custom to give poets any titles , save those
which serve to mark their peculiar excellencies : all other trappings are
derogatory to the might and majesty of their simple sirname . No one , even in our
own days ...
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Anything more than this catalogue of names our limits for . bid us to give . It is to
be regretted , that the manuscripts of Francis Sempill are irretrievably lost . They
fell into hands which knew not their value , and it is to be feared out of them they ...
Anything more than this catalogue of names our limits for . bid us to give . It is to
be regretted , that the manuscripts of Francis Sempill are irretrievably lost . They
fell into hands which knew not their value , and it is to be feared out of them they ...
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| Title | The Harp of Renfrewshire: A Collection of Songs and Other Poetical Pieces (many of which are Original) Accompanied with Notes, Explanatory, Critical, and Biographical, and a Short Essay on the Poets of Renfrewshire |
| Editor | William Motherwell |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | A. Gardner, 1872 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 19 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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