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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Hector MacNeil (1746–1818)

Macneil, Hector. A Scottish poet; born at Rosebank, near Roslin in 1746; died in 1818. He wrote: ‘Scotland’: Skaith’ (1795); ‘The Waes of War’ (1796),—both immensely popular,—and others. His poetical works, two volumes, appeared in 1801. He published also ‘Scottish Adventures’ (1812), a historical tale; ‘Memoirs of Charles Macpherson’ (1801), an autobiography; etc.