. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. hundred gui-neas by it. The greater part of the pieces in thisvolume had previously appeared at different timesin the detached form of sheets or half-sheets, atone penny each, and so popular had his name be-come, that it was quite customary for the citizensof Edinburgh to send their children, with a pen-ny, for Allan Ramsays last piece. Li 1724 hepublished the first volume of The Tea-TableMiscellany, a collection of songs, Scottish andEnglish, which was speedily followed
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. hundred gui-neas by it. The greater part of the pieces in thisvolume had previously appeared at different timesin the detached form of sheets or half-sheets, atone penny each, and so popular had his name be-come, that it was quite customary for the citizensof Edinburgh to send their children, with a pen-ny, for Allan Ramsays last piece. Li 1724 hepublished the first volume of The Tea-TableMiscellany, a collection of songs, Scottish andEnglish, which was speedily followed by a second;a third volume appeared in 1727, and a fourthafter another interval. This publication Aventthrough no less than twelve editions in a fewyears. The rapid sale of the first volume inducedhim in the same year (1724) to bring out TheEvergreen, being a Collection of Scots Poems,wrote by the Ingenious before 1600. It professedto be chiefly selected from the Bannatyne MS.,and was equally successful. Ramsay, who was aJacobite in principle, inserted in this publicationa poem of affected antiquity, under an assumed. a^nJa RAMSAY, 325 ALLAN. name, entitled The Vision, having reference tothe Pretender. His next publication at once established hisfame upon a permanent foundation. In 1725appeared The Gentle Shepherd, a pastoral com-edy, in five acts—the best poem of its kind, per-haps, in any language. In 1721 he had publishedan eclogue, under the title of Patie and Roger,and in 1723 a sequel under that ofJenny andMaggie. The public approbation of these de-tached scenes encouraged him to make them thegroundwork of the complete drama called TheGentle Shepherd, the success of which was in-stantaneous and unprecedented. Edition rapidlyfollowed edition, and in a few years it was knownto every admirer of poetry in the three kingdoms,and had secured a welcome place in almost ev-ery cottage in Scotland. The great popularity ofGays Beggars Opera, not long after, inducedRamsay to print
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