Frontispiece.

ET. Burney dd.

sculp.

Listening with pleasing dread to the deep roar Of the wide-weltering

waves

I. Fittler

Minstrel Book I. ver. LIV

Published Oct. 1.1796, by C. Dilly, London.

THE

MINSTREL;

OR,

THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS:

IN TWO BOOKS.

WITH

SOME OTHER POEMS.

BY

JAMES BEATTIE, LL. D.

London:

PRINTED BY T. GILLET,

FOR C. DILLY, IN THE POULTRY,

AND W. CREECH, EDINBURGH.

M DCC XCVII.

ΤΟ

MRS. MONTAGU,

THESE LITTLE POEMS,

NOW REVISED AND CORRECTED

FOR THE LAST TIME,

ARE,

WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF

ESTEEM AND GRATITUDE,

MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY

THE AUTHOR.