The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes
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He spent much of his leisure in studying and practising music, which he always loved with a passion.
He had hitherto been supported by the kindness of his brother David, but now he was to look out for a profession for himself.
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- Ode to Hope
- Ode to Peace
- Ode on Lord Hay's Birthday
- The Judgment of Paris
- The Triumph of Melancholy
- Elegy, written in the year 1758
- Retirement
- The Hermit
- On the Report of a Monument to be erected in Westminster Abbey, to the Memory of a late Author (Churchill)
- The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes
- The Hares a Fable
- The Wolf and Shepherds. A Fable
- The Life of Robert Blair
- The Grave
- A Poem, dedicated to the Memory of the late learned and eminent Mr William Law, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh
- The Life and Poetry of William Falconer
- The Shipwreck: Introduction
- The Shipwreck: Canto I
- The Shipwreck: Canto II
- The Shipwreck: Canto III
- Occasional Elegy, in which the preceding narrative is concluded
- The Demagogue1
- A Poem, sacred to the Memory of His Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales
- Ode on the Duke of York's second departure from England as Rear-Admiral
- Description of a Ninety-Gun Ship