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It may be regarded as a useful supplement and corrective to the more roseate presentations of the kail-yard school of J.M. Barrie and "Ian Maclaren." It made a considerable impression. The author d. almost immediately after its publication. There is an ed. with a memoir by Mr. Andrew Lang. Physician and essayist, s. of John B., D.D., a distinguished dissenting minister in Edin.
Poet, s. of a barber in Edin., where he was b., became a sailor, and was thus thoroughly competent to describe the management of the storm-tossed vessel, the career and fate of which are described in his poem, The Shipwreck , a work of genuine, though unequal, talent. The efforts which F. made to improve the poem in the successive ed. which followed the first were not entirely successful.
Mr. Skene's Reminiscences. See Moore's Life of Sheridan, vol. i. p. 191. This work was published late in 1825. Burns's Vision. Lindsay's Chronicles of Scotland 2 vols. Edin. 1814, pp. 246-7. Mr.
SUMMARY. B. 1759, flax-dresser at Irvine 1781, farms at Mossgiel, has love affair with Jean Armour, pub. first ed. of poems 1786, visits Edin. 1786, goes to Ellisland, became exciseman 1789, pub. songs, c. 1791, d. 1797.
The next year he began The History of England, but for some time to come his energies were still divided between this task, the demands of the Edinburgh Review, and politics. He was elected for Edin., for which he sat until 1847, when he was thrown out on the Maynooth question, and from 1839-41 was Sec. for War.
The Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge describes his journeys on the Continent. Philologist and miscellaneous author, and traveller, b. at East Dereham, Norfolk, s. of a recruiting officer, had a somewhat wandering childhood. He received most of his education in Edin., and showed a peculiar talent for acquiring languages.
Though often heavy, D. had the true poetic gift, had passages of grandeur, and sang the praises of England with the heart of a patriot. Theological and scientific writer, b. at Stirling, and ed. at Edin., he studied for the ministry of the Free Church.
Journalist and miscellaneous writer, b. in Dumfriesshire, was for a time a teacher in Huntingdon, and wrote a History of Huntingdon . In 1828 he became ed. of the Inverness Courier, which he conducted with great ability. He ed. He received the degree of LL.D. from Edin. After his return he pub. a life of the Duke of Ormonde , and a History of England to 1654 in 4 vols.
Poet, s. of a small farmer at Soutra, Midlothian, was destined for the ministry of a small Dissenting sect to which his f. belonged, but attached himself to the Church of Scotland, and became minister of South Leith in 1773. He read lectures on the philosophy of history in Edin., and was the author of a vol. of poems. L., in fact, suppressed some of Bruce's poems and introduced others of his own.
He then returned to Edin., where he worked for the brothers Chambers, the eminent publishers, and where he became acquainted with Wilson, Sir William Hamilton, and Chalmers, for the last of whom he cherished an extraordinary veneration. Going to London in 1847 he wrote extensively in reviews, magazines, and encyclopædias. In 1852 he became Prof. of English Literature in Univ.
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