The poems of Allan Ramsay : A new edition, corrected, and enlarged; with a glossary To which are prefixed, a life of the author, from authentic documents: and remarks on his poems, from a large view of their merits In two volumes Vol I[-II]. . of it. If I feel no plea-fure in the perufal of a poem, I cannot be per-fuaded, by any fubtlety of philofophical argumen-tation, that I ought to have been pleafed: if I dofeel pleafure, that argument is unnecelTary. In aword, that fpecies of abdracl reafoning may amufe,and even improve the underftanding; and, asfitted to do fo, it is a laudable and a man
The poems of Allan Ramsay : A new edition, corrected, and enlarged; with a glossary To which are prefixed, a life of the author, from authentic documents: and remarks on his poems, from a large view of their merits In two volumes Vol I[-II]. . of it. If I feel no plea-fure in the perufal of a poem, I cannot be per-fuaded, by any fubtlety of philofophical argumen-tation, that I ought to have been pleafed: if I dofeel pleafure, that argument is unnecelTary. In aword, that fpecies of abdracl reafoning may amufe,and even improve the underftanding; and, asfitted to do fo, it is a laudable and a manly ex-ercife of our faculties ; but it cannot guide thetafte. This quality of the mind is a gift of may be cultivated and improved by exercifeupon its objects, but it cannot be created. Wecannot acquire tafte, as we do mathematics orlogic, by ftudying it as a fcience. No procefs of reafoning WRITINGS OF RAMSAY. clvii reafoning can ever teach the nerves to thrill, theeyes to overflow, or the heart to fympathife. Thisfenfibility is inbred in the mind : it is the divinaparticula aitns ; anil as all true poetry addrefles it-felf to that faculty of our nature, it muft be theonly fure criterion to judge of its excellence, THE CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. VERSES TO THE AUTHOR. PAGE From Jofiah Burchet - . - clxv From C. T. - • - clxx From C. Beckingham - . clxxii From James Arbuckle - . - clxxiii From Mefton . clxxv To the Critics SERIOUS. - clxxvii Tartana ; or, The Plaid The City of Edinburghs Addrefs to the Country -On the Prefervation of Mr. Bruce and his School-fellowsOn Content - - - • _ The City of Edinburghs Salutation to the Marquis of Carnarvon . _ « - On the Profpeft of Plenty : a Poem on the North-Sea Fifliery - . - _ 3 24 47 50On Clx CONTENTS. PAGE On the Eclipfe of the Sun, April 1715 - - 62 The Gentlemans Qualifications debated • - 6^ On Friendfhip ----- 68The Authors Addrefs to the Town-Council of Edinburgh 69 The Petition to the Whin-bufh
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