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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Scottish"
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Work title:
"A new edition of the life and heroick actions of the renoun'd Sir William Wallace, General and Governour of Scotland. Wherein the Old obsolete Words are rendered more Intelligible; and adapted to the understanding of such who have not leisure to study the Meaning, and Import of such Phrases without the help of a Glossary"
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Date: 1722
"Yon Knight said he, in War is so expert, / And has it so engraven on his Heart, / That he unto a very Point does know, / Each Stratagem, and nice Punctilio."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)
Date: 1722
" The Print of Love new-stamp'd his ductile Breast, / And with soft Characters his Soul Imprest"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)