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BC MS Lt 115

c.1750

Contains 27 eighteenth-century English poems by William Hamilton, preceded by an introductory essay and concluded with an index to all the contents of the manuscript.

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6553

174-?

Imitation of Horace's Odes, I.5, on the dangerous inconstancy of feeling, or fickleness, in the female lover of a young man. Cf. BCMSV 6571.

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6554

174-?

Palinode written in response to/in continuation of BCMSV 6553, again on the painful unreliability of love; the poet warns the youth of the dangers of falling for Maria, and then reveals that he too once loved her, and ultimately lost her

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6555

174-?

Imitation of Horace's Odes, I.7, addressed to the Earl of Stair, in which celebrates the Scottish landscape and the Jacobite cause, and renounces certain conventional concerns of British poetry

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6556

174-?

Imitation of Horace's Odes, I.11, addressed to Miss Erskine, and urging her to seize the moment and take appropriate opportunities, and not to dwell too much on an unknowable future

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6557

174-?

Fragment of a ballad concerned with love and the beauty of the speaker's (presumed) lover, Margaret; imitated from Horace, Odes, I.32. Begins imperfectly owing to loss of pp. 23-26.

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6558

174-?

Imitation of Horace's Odes, I.33, in which the speaker counsels a gentleman in love not to persist in his attempts to court a beautiful woman called Maria, as she is clearly not interested; he goes on to describe more generally Love's

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6559

174-?

Fragment of a ballad, whose content (because it is incomplete) remains unclear; but is clearly Jacobite in spirit, and makes a series of specific cultural references, as well as satirically describing the quickening effects of alcohol on man;

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6560

174-?

Version of the latter part of Book X of Virgil's Aeneid, describing in detail an epic battle, and concentrating on the contest between Aeneas and Lausus and Mezentius

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6561

174-?

Lines on the despair that follows the loss of love

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6562

174-?

Poem lamenting the loss of innocence in rural life, and praising the Countess of Eglintoun for being one of the last exemplars of natural, rural virtue; accompanying the gift of a copy of Allan Ramsay's 'Gentle Shepherd'.

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6563

174-?

Lines celebrating (but also mourning) the passing of the seasons, and concerned with the mutability of nature