Excerpt from The Poems of Alexander Montgomery: With Biographical Notices But this tradition may perhaps be nearly allied to poetical embellishfnent; for the families of Mont gomery'and Cunningham were separated by an ih veterate feud, and the poet, as we learn from one of his sonnets, was not exempted from this estrange ment. Finlayston is not many miles idistant from' Hazelhead - castle and hence popular tradition, which is seldom attentive to minute particulars, may have confounded one place with another. A third tradi ...
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Excerpt from The Poems of Alexander Montgomery: With Biographical Notices But this tradition may perhaps be nearly allied to poetical embellishfnent; for the families of Mont gomery'and Cunningham were separated by an ih veterate feud, and the poet, as we learn from one of his sonnets, was not exempted from this estrange ment. Finlayston is not many miles idistant from' Hazelhead - castle and hence popular tradition, which is seldom attentive to minute particulars, may have confounded one place with another. A third tradi tion has transferred Montgomery to Galloway nor' is it difficult to suppose that he may, at different pe riods of his life, have resided in all these districts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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