This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...ii. p. 314.) Line 103. With hie stevin. " Voice or sound; it seems to be connected with the following line, Potum meum cum fletu miscebam.' As if he had said, 1 Singing this stave of the penitential psalm, with many tears. "--Hailes. " With that verse, or stanza, in the Psalms, ' / have mingled my ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...ii. p. 314.) Line 103. With hie stevin. " Voice or sound; it seems to be connected with the following line, Potum meum cum fletu miscebam.' As if he had said, 1 Singing this stave of the penitential psalm, with many tears. "--Hailes. " With that verse, or stanza, in the Psalms, ' / have mingled my drink with weeping? "--Wart On. Line 107. Dies ilia, . This is the first line, the words being transposed, of the celebrated hymn on the resurrection, in the Missal, which was sung at funerals, Dies irae, dies ilia, Solvet saeclum in favilla, &c. See it printed in Sir Alex. Croke's Essay on Rhyming Latin Verse, p. 134. Oxford, 1828,8vo. Line 115. Than hardely sing. " Than sing hardily, or with confidence."--Hailes. Line 116. " A verse in the Psalms. See other instances in Dunbar (vol. i. page 198.) In George Bannatyne's MS. are many examples of this mixture, the impropriety of which was not, perhaps, perceived by our ancestors."--Warton. COMPLAINT TO THE KING.-Page 142. In MSS. Maitland and Reidpeth.--" This complaint is written in a passion, which is a great enemy to clearness. An author may find occasion to give his writing a zest of supreme indignation; and no cause can be stronger than this of Dunbar, the seeiDg blockheads preferred to him by caprice, or ignorance; but he should always be cool, even when expressing the sternest anger and contempt, else.his pages will be obscure, and all the fire be lost in smoke. Many harsh names in this piece I cannot explain."--Pinkerton. As Maitland's MS. is very illegible, it is no wonder Mr Pinkerton should have been unable to make out many of these harsh name8, and have to omit some lines near the conclusion, which the other MS. fortunately supplies. Line 72. Throw all Regiouns. Here Dunbar...
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New in New jacket. The Poems of William Dunbar, Now First Collected. with Notes, and a Memoir of His Life. by David Laing; Volume 2 (Paperback or Softback)
