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Collection of poems by William Hamilton Esq. of Bangour.
Hamilton, William
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.
Title: Horace Ode 5 Book I, Imitated
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: 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.
Title: Pallinode
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: 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
Title: Horace Book 1 Ode 7, Imitated, to the Earl of S--r
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: 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
Title: Horace Book I, Ode 11, Imitated, To Miss Er--ne
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: 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
Title: [unknown]
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: 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.
Title: Horace Book 1 Ode 33, Imitated, To a Gentleman in Love
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: 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
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Title: [unknown]
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: 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;
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Title: The Episode of Lausus and Mezentius; from the tenth book of Virgils Eneids, Beginning line
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: 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
Title: Love turn'd to Dispair
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Lines on the despair that follows the loss of love
Title: To the Countess of Eglintoun. With A Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: 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'.
Title: To Mrs D---
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Lines celebrating (but also mourning) the passing of the seasons, and concerned with the mutability of nature
Title: To H--- H--- in the Assembly
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: On the themes of love and constancy, with a number of specific cultural references (mostly to the names of contemporaries). H.H. is identified in a manuscript note in a copy of Hamilton's 'Poems on Several Occasions', 1760, in the Brotherton
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Title: To a Gentleman Going to Travel [Latin epigraph]
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Initially concerned with the different habits of different types of traveller, and the various motivations for travel; becomes increasingly satirical, political, and culturally specific as the poem progresses. Includes lines not printed in the 1760
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Title: Ode to Fancy
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Imprecatory ode to a personified Fancy, with Hymen in train; the speaker asks for poetic inspiration, whilst aware of its transience
Title: Ode to Love
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Ode personifying love, and celebrating in particular the allure of feminine beauty
Title: Ode to Contemplation [Latin epigraph from Virgil]
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Ode invoking a personified Contemplation, calling for her inspiration, and asking her to banish Superstition, Clamour, and especially Love; however, Love insists upon interrupting the poet's contemplative reverie
Title: To Lady Mary Montgomery
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: In praise of Lady Mary Montgomery, discussing her various (successful and unsuccessful) suitors; subsequently about those women who pursue her virtuous example
Title: On Seeing the Lady Mary Montgomery sitt to her picture. In Imitation of Spencer's Stile
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: On observing Lady Mary Montgomery having her portrait painted, emphasising her physical beauty; in imitation of the style of Edmund Spenser
Title: Horace Ode 5 Book 1st
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript:
Contents: Translation of Horace's Odes, I.5, concerned with the seduction of the beautiful Pyrrha by a young man, but also reflecting on his naive idealisation of her; concludes with the poet's own amorous disavowal. Cf. BCMSV 6553.
Title: Horace Book 1st Ode 17 To Mrs H--d--n
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Translation of Horace's Odes, I.17, celebrating the pleasures of pastoral life, and describing how they are protected from harm
Title: The Flower of Yarrow. To Lady Mary Montgomery
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Poem in celebration of feminine and natural beauty; it argues that the yarrow flower is aesthetically useless unless attached to Lady Mary Montgomery's breast
Title: The Miss and the Butterfly. A Fable
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Narrative poem in which an innocent young girl espies, and then pursues and catches, a beautiful butterfly; the butterfly addresses the girl, pleading with her to release him, and then advises her on the dangers of pursuing colourful ephemera later
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Title: The Doves. A Poem
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Poem celebrating the innocence of doves, and then calling on this as imaginative inspiration for some lines on the poet's lover
Title: The Flower. A Poem. To Lady Jane Home.
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Celebration of the calm (and inspirational qualities) of rural solitude and gardening, including praise of Lady Jane Home.
Title: The Episode of the Thistle
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Poem combining both a celebration of nature and natural landscape, with historical narrative (concerned with the history of Scotland)
Title: Speech of Randolph, Bruce Book 2d
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Poetic narrative in which Randolph, a Scottish noble, recounts the story of his ancestor, Ethelind, and her adventures among the Picts, before she becomes Queen of Scots
Title: Epilogue to the Drummer acted by Boys
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Epilogue apparently to Allan Ramsay's play 'The Drummer', praising the female audience and asking for its praise of the boys' performance
Title: Write under the Lady C---s picture in imitation of an epigram of Martials
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Poem (in imitation of an epigram by Martial) spoken by a woman who, early in life, spurned the amorous advances of various passionate suitors, and instead chose to become the wife of a plain and indifferent lover