| Description | Commonplace book belonging to James Gregory entitled ''Fugitive pieces in prose and verse, fragments of all kinds, extracts from poems, epigrams, elegant, satirical and ludicrous, epitaphs serious and comic, translations, imitations, parallel passages and plagiarisms by various authors. Begun August 1783.'
This volume contains the following:
Epitaph on a parrot crying to an echo on a foggy night
Inscription on a mew for moorfowl (or grouse) the inhabitants of which had been destroyed by a dog
Ode to hope
Conclusion of Mr Greenfield's Thesis when he took a degree of Master of Arts (this item is in Latin)
Counterpart to Mr Greenfield's simile in the Ode to Hope fourth stanza (this item is in Latin)
Cherokee Death song, versify'd from a prose translation obtained by a gentleman who had resided some time among the Cherokees
A funeral dirge
Some verses from Dodsley's collection (Robert Dodsley published a collection of poems in 1748)
Verse written as a blank leaf of Entick's English Grammar written by Lady Elizabeth Lindsay, now York, aged 15 when at boarding school
Complimentary epigram to an old man (this item is in Latin)
Epitaph on a skeleton found in Dalkeith Park by Lady Frances Scott, now Douglas
Epitaph on a rich vinegar merchant
Epitaph on Catherina Trotti, Marchioness Gabrielli, written by Zanobetti, a Roman advocate, 1755 (this item is in Latin)
Epitaph on Thomas Young, Professor of Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh
Epigram on the Dutch
On the death of Lord Dundee
Epigrammata in fenestram cubiculi in quo prima nocte nuptiarum maritus cum uxore concubit (epigram on the window of the bedroom in which on the first night of their marriage the husband sleeps with his wife)
Burlesque translation of Pitcairn's epigram on the Dutch
Left by a suicide on his table at Calais
On a sermon against love of glory by Akenside
Epigram (this item is in French)
Epitaph (this item is in French)
2 rondeaux
Epigram from the Welsh
Epigram by the Rev. Dr Miles Cowper on learning that Mr Forbes, a rich coppersmith, was paying his addresses to Miss Burnet, January 1785
Epigram on the nature of Niobe (this item is in Greek)
Translation of Horace's Integer Vita Sceleris Prios by Allan Ramsay Jr
Imitation of Horace's Eheu Fugaces by Mr Frazer Tytler, 1785
Epigrams
Oxford Epigrams
Typescript inscriptions which have been pasted into the book
Epitaph in the Canongate churchyard
To the God of eating by Mr MacLaurin
Answer to the foregoing ode by Lady Frances Scott-Douglas
On the Magdalen Hospital in London by Dr Markham, Archbishop of York, 1762
Fragment from a poem by the above on the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales
Epitaph from the Greek
Inscription to be placed in large letters of gold over the door of every court of justice
A loose leaf translation of Horace
Mayday - a translation of George Buchanan's Calandae Maiae
Book list
Verses on Spring
Fragments on Verses to winter. |