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Creator
- Adam Smith (1)
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- Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1)
- Christopher Smart (1)
- David Hume (1)
- Henry Mackenzie (1)
- Isaac Watts (1)
- James Johnson (1)
- James MacPherson (1)
- John Thomas Smith (1)
- Joseph Ritson (1)
- Pietro Urbani (1)
- Robert Burns (7)
- Robert Fergusson (1)
- Samuel Marshak [translator] (1)
- Unknown (1)
- William Blake (2)
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Language
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A Selection of Scots Songs
Musical scoreOver several years Robert Burns contributed to James Johnson’s The Scots Musical Museum (1787–1803) and later George Tho...
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'Auld Reikie'
BookRobert Fergusson continued the strain of satirical writing in the Scots dialect that was popularised earlier by Allan Ra...
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Divine Songs: Attempted in Easy Language for the U...
Book, Children's book, Illustration, ImageIsaac Watts’s collection of moral songs for children was first published in 1715. For the next 150 years, it was one of ...
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Four Dissertations by Enlightenment philosopher Da...
BookDavid Hume was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher, known for his empiricism and scepticism. He was a major figure in t...
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Fragments of Ossian, an invented early Scots epic...
BookDuring the 1760s, James MacPherson published a series of works purporting to be translated from collected fragments of t...
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Hymns for the Amusement of Children
Chapbook, Children's book, Illustration, Image, Poem, Hymn bookThis is Christopher Smart’s Hymns for the Amusement of Children (1771). It was written at the end of Smart’s life, while...
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Hymns in Prose for Children
Book, Children's bookHymns in Prose for Children was first published in 1781 – the edition shown here is from 1787 – and its popularity ensur...
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Letter from Robert Burns about debt and farming
Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: unknownThis letter was written by Robert Burns from the Scottish town of Mauchline in Ayrshire, where he lived from 1784. He is...
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Manuscript of ‘A Red, Red Rose’ by Robert Burns
Manuscript Created date: 1788-94‘A Red, Red Rose’ is one of the most famous of all Scottish love songs, collected by Robert Burns in 1794. Burns origin...
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Manuscript of 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' by Rob...
Manuscript Created date: unknown‘The Cotter’s Saturday Night’ by Robert Burns marks a turning point in the history of the pastoral poem. Pastoral poems ...
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Manuscript songs collected by Robert Burns
Manuscript Created date: late 18th centuryThe Hastie Manuscript – it is named after Archibald Hastie, who bequeathed it to the British Museum in 1858 – contains 1...
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Nollekens and his Times
BookJohn Smith’s short biography of William Blake contains a strong indication that Blake’s early songs were songs meant to ...
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Robert Burns translated into Russian
Book, Illustration, ImageIn the 19th century, the Scottish poet Robert Burns was admired by a number of Russian intellectuals for his empathy wit...
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Select Collection of English Songs by Joseph Ritso...
Book, Children's book, Illustration, ImagePublished in 1783, this is a collection of song lyrics and music by Joseph Ritson, with eight plates engraved by William...
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