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Patronus redux: or, our protector is return'd safe again. An historicall
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Paterson, Ninian (f. 1688). Epigrammatum libri octo oum aliquot Psal-
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Paterson was also the author of a number of funeral elegies, of inferior
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III. (1707-1786)
Armstrong, John (1709-1779). See bibl. to vol. x, chap. vii, post.
Beattie, James (1735-1803). See ib.
Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791). Poems on several occasions. Glasgow, 1746.
The Graham: an heroic ballad, in four cantos. 1774.


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Blair, Robert (1699-1746). See bibl. to vol. x, chap. VII, post.
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Savannah, a poem in two cantos. 2nd edn. 1780.
The downfall of the Roman confederacy, or, the ever memorable 12th of
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Poetical works. 1789.
Douglas, Francis (1710? –1790? ). Rural love, a tale in the Scottish dialect.
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Aberdeen, 1750.
The birth-day; with a few strictures on the times; a poem in three
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See, also, sec. E, Jacobite Literature.
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This was remodelled and reissued, without the author's name, as The
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Home, John (1724-1808). Douglas: a tragedy. Edinburgh, 1757.
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discovery, 1769; Alonzo, 1773; Alfred, 1778) met with conspicuous success.
For his history of the Rebellion of 1745, see sec. E, below. His collected
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