Project Gutenberg 2025-04-22 Public domain in the USA. 149 Gray, Christian 1772 48040179 A new selection of miscellaneous pieces, in verse $aPerth :$bR. Morison, $c1821. Mairi, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "A new selection of miscellaneous pieces, in verse by Christian Gray" is a collection of poetry written during the early 19th century. The book compiles a variety of reflective and personal poems, many inspired by the author's own life as a blind woman living in rural Scotland. The verses explore themes such as gratitude, loss, family, humility, religion, and the joys and hardships of everyday life, often addressed to specific friends, family members, benefactors, and the general public. The likely topics revolve around personal experience, moral contemplation, and heartfelt observation. The book presents a rich tapestry of short poems and songs, ranging from dedications and thank-you notes to meditations on illness, faith, death, and memory. Christian Gray's voice is gentle and sincere, offering advice to loved ones, mourning lost friends, and describing both her struggles and blessings. Some poems address the kindness of benefactors or recount touching anecdotes, while others reflect on nature's fleeting beauty and the importance of spiritual reflection. Interwoven are translations and adaptations from Ossian and responses to popular songs of the time. Overall, Gray's work conveys resilience, hope, and moral encouragement amid life's trials, drawing on her personal hardships to illuminate universal truths of gratitude, humility, and faith. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/newselectionofmi00gray/page/n3/mode/2up 20240617024238gray 1821 GB Reading ease score: 73.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Scottish poetry -- 19th century English poetry -- Scottish authors -- 19th century PR Text Category: Poetry 180601 2025-06-30T05:43:46.361693 text/html 155482 2025-04-22T09:24:59 text/html 266233 2025-06-30T05:43:51.896632 application/epub+zip 264364 2025-06-30T05:43:47.467632 application/epub+zip 182450 2025-06-30T05:43:46.899638 application/epub+zip 669024 2025-06-30T05:43:54.855644 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 636970 2025-06-30T05:43:51.438607 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 110252 2025-06-30T05:43:45.457667 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 90272 2025-04-22T09:24:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15809 2025-06-30T05:43:54.991590 application/rdf+xml 13186 2025-06-30T05:43:47.096669 image/jpeg 1722 2025-06-30T05:43:46.995627 image/jpeg 233395 2025-06-30T05:43:46.375667 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia