Author: Skinner, John (1721-1807)
Title: Amusements of leisure hours : or, Poetical pieces, chiefly in the Scottish dialect
Description: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Moir and sold by S. Cheyne 1809. First Edition. 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. 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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Title: Amusements of leisure hours : or, Poetical pieces, chiefly in the Scottish dialect
Description: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Moir and sold by S. Cheyne 1809. First Edition. 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. 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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- Book number: 313491
- Book number: 313491