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'Audiit, et voti Phoebus succedere partem Mente dedit; partem volucres dispersit in auras; which, as he added, 'is weel rendered into English metre by my friend Bangour: Ae half the prayer wi' Phoebus grace did find, The t'other half he whistled down the wind. The conflicting passions and exhausted feelings of Waverley had resigned him to late but sound repose.
Audiit, et voti Phoebus succedere partem Mente dedit; partem volueres dispersit in auras, 'which, as he added, 'is weel rendered into English metre by my friend Bangour: Ae half the prayer, wi' Phoebus grace did find, The t'other half he whistled down the wind. The conflicting passions and exhausted feelings of Waverley had resigned him to late but sound repose.
And we were too proud not to carry him to the Abbey of Holyrood House, that beautiful piece of architecture, but, alas! that deserted mansion of royalty, which Hamilton of Bangour, in one of his elegant poems, calls A virtuous palace, where no monarch dwells.
'Audiit, et voti Phoebus succedere partem Mente dedit; partem volucres dispersit in auras; which, as he added, 'is weel rendered into English metre by my friend Bangour: Ae half the prayer wi' Phoebus grace did find, The t'other half he whistled down the wind. The conflicting passions and exhausted feelings of Waverley had resigned him to late but sound repose.
Allan Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd, published 1726, is dedicated to her, in verse, by Hamilton of Bangour. The following account of this distinguished lady is taken from Boswell's Life of Johnson by Mr. Croker: "Lady Margaret Dalrymple, only daughter of John, Earl of Stair, married in 1700, to Hugh, third Earl of Loudoun.
And we were too proud not to carry him to the Abbey of Holyrood-house, that beautiful piece of architecture, but, alas! that deserted mansion of royalty, which Hamilton of Bangour, in one of his elegant poems, calls 'A virtuous palace, where no monarch dwells . I was much entertained while Principal Robertson fluently harangued to Dr.
'Audiit, et voti Phoebus succedere partem Mente dedit; partem volucres dispersit in auras; which, as he added, 'is weel rendered into English metre by my friend Bangour: Ae half the prayer wi' Phoebus grace did find, The t'other half he whistled down the wind. The conflicting passions and exhausted feelings of Waverley had resigned him to late but sound repose.
Allan Ramsay dedicated to her his Gentle Shepherd, and W. Hamilton, of Bangour, wrote to her verses on the presentation of Ramsay's poem. Hamilton's Poems, p. 23. See ante, ii. 66, and iii. 188. 'She called Boswell the boy: "yes, Madam," said I, "we will send him to school." "He is already," said she, "in a good school;" and expressed her hope of his improvement.
It is impossible not to laugh at the bare idea; and no less funny are Pamela's poetical flights, especially when, like Hamilton of Bangour in exile, she paraphrases the paraphrase of the 137th Psalm, about her captivity in Lincolnshire.
Hamilton of Bangour , which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early age; the impression still remained on my mind; it was confirmed by the opinion of my friend the Honourable Andrew Erskine, himself both a good poet and a good critick, who thought Hamilton as true a poet as ever wrote, and that his not having fame was unaccountable.
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