The Poetical Works Of James Beattie And William Collins - BY THOMAS MILLER - CONTENTS - MEMOIR OF Dr . BRATTIE . . . . . . . V UEATTIES POEMS . RETIREMENT . . . . . . . . ELEGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ODE TO HOPE 63 55 59 ODE ON LORD ETAYS DIRTHD-Y . . . . . . . 61 THE BATTLE OF THE PIGMIES AN CRANES . 72 THE WARES . rZ FAELF . . . . . . 80 THE HERMIT . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 TIIE JUDGMENT OF PARIS . . . . . . . . . 92 ODE TO PEACE . . . . . . . . . . . 112 THE TRIUMIJH OF MEI.ANCHOI.T . . 111 ELEGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l28 ELEGY . . . . . . . . . THE WOLF AN11 SHEPHERDS . A FAXLE . . . . . . . . . 130 133 ON THE REPORT OF A MONUIEKT . . . TO CIIURCHILI. 138 SONG, IN IMITATION OI SRAKSPARE . . . . . 144 EPITAPH ON TWO YOUNG MEN . . . 146........ETAIJH, INTENDED FOR HIMSELF . . . . . . AN EPISTLE TO THE REV. MR. THOMAS BLACILOCK . To THE RIGHT HON. LADY CHARLOTTE . . Page 147 118 iTranlat ione. CORDON . . . ANACREON. ODE XXII. . . IF1 THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST BOOR OF LUCRETIUS . . 162 HORACE. BOOK 11. ODE X. . . . . . . 165 HORACE. BOOIC 111. ODE XIII. . . . . . . . . 157 1G6 THE PASTORALS OF VIRGIL. Pastoral I. . 168 m PastoralII. . 174 97 V PastoralIJI. PastoralIV. . . . . . . . . . . 179 188 7 PastoralV. . 192 . . . . . 77 PastoralVI. 198 . . . . . V Pastoral VII. 203 . . . . . 77 Pastoral VIII. 208 3 PastoralIX. . . . . . 215 77 Pastoral X. . . . . . 230.....

Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of the 18th-century criminal code. Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 looks first at mercy's religious and philosophical aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland, during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare from the American war of independence to the First World War. This study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.

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