Specimens With Memoirs of the Less-Known British Poets, volume 1
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' [1] 'Een:' eyes. [2] 'Merle:' blackbird. [3] 'Salust:' saluted. [4] 'Tint:' lost. [5] 'But:' without. [6] 'Kind:' nature. [7] 'Eild:' age. [8] 'Kythit:' shewn. [9] 'Frustrir:' in vain. [10] 'Spleen:' from the heart. [11] 'Redomite:' bound, encircled. [12] 'Sweir:' slothful. [13] 'Well beseen:' of good appearance. [14] 'Tone:' taken. [15] 'Whose eidant plead yet made my thoughtis grein:' whose close disputation made my thoughts yearn. GAVIN DOUGLAS. This eminent prelate was a younger son of Ar...chibald, the fifth Earl ofAngus. He was born in Brechin about the year 1474. He studied at theUniversity of Paris. He became a churchman, and yet united withattention to the duties of his calling great proficiency in politelearning. In 1513 he finished a translation, into Scottish verse, ofVirgil's 'Aeneid, ' which, considering the age, is an extraordinaryperformance. It occupied him only sixteen months. The multitude ofobsolete terms, however, in which it abounds, renders it now, as awhole, illegible.
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