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

Author: James Beattie

Release Date: November 9, 2008 [EBook #27221]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THE
MINSTREL,
WITH
SOME OTHER POEMS.

[Illustration]

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.

Page.
The Minstrel, Book I. 1
Book II. 35

Retirement 71

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