. Carlyle's essay on Burns; . Dumfries Volun-teers. — Dabbles inpolitics. — Seizes asmuggling craft, andsends carronades toFrench revolutionists. 1793. Fourth edition of hispoems. — Political of-fenses reproved byBoard of Excise. 179-4. Health impaired. — In-temperate ? 1795. Sinking. — Poverty. — Distress. 1796. Dies July 21; buried July 25. Contemporary Litkrathrh and Events. 1788. Gibbon publishes the conclusion of his great History. 1789. William Blakes Songs of Innocence. 1790. Groses Antiquities of Scotland.— Pye poet laureate. — Burkes Re-flections on t/ie French Revolution. 1791. Cowpe
. Carlyle's essay on Burns; . Dumfries Volun-teers. — Dabbles inpolitics. — Seizes asmuggling craft, andsends carronades toFrench revolutionists. 1793. Fourth edition of hispoems. — Political of-fenses reproved byBoard of Excise. 179-4. Health impaired. — In-temperate ? 1795. Sinking. — Poverty. — Distress. 1796. Dies July 21; buried July 25. Contemporary Litkrathrh and Events. 1788. Gibbon publishes the conclusion of his great History. 1789. William Blakes Songs of Innocence. 1790. Groses Antiquities of Scotland.— Pye poet laureate. — Burkes Re-flections on t/ie French Revolution. 1791. Cowpers of Homer is- sued.— Boswells Life of Johnson. 1792. Scott admitted to the bar. — Rogerss Pleasures of Memory. — Order ofUnited Irishmen. — Death ofSir Joshua Reynolds. 1793. Wordsworths Descriptive Sketches, and .in Evening Walk.—War withFrance. — First patented fire en-gine. 179G. Coleridges The Watcliman periodi-cal.— Southeys .Joan of Arc.—Scotts translation of ROBERT BURNS. I ^- - /i ^^ -^ CAKLYLES ESSAY ON BUENS. I. In the modern arrangements of society, it is no un-*common thing that a man of genins must, like Butler/ ask for bread and receive a stone; for, in spite of on^ grand maxim of supply and demand, it is by no meansthe highest excellence that men are most forward to recog- 5nize. The inventor of a spinning jenny ^ is pretty sure o^.ihis reward in his OAvn day; but the writer of a true poem,,like the apostle ^ of a true religion, is nearly as sure of thecontrary. We do not know whether it is not an aggra-,-iiation,lpf the injustice, that there is generally a posthumous 10^^^^retfil3ution.^ Robert Burns, in the course of ISTature, mightyet have J^en living; but his short life was spent in toilandpenury; and he died, in the prime of his manhood,^miserable and neglected: and yet already a brave ^ mauso-leum ^ shines ^^ over his dust, and more than one splendid 15monument has been reared in other places to
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