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While in my matchless graces wrapt I stand, And touch each feature with a trembling hand; Deign, lovely self! with art and nature’s pride, To mix the colours, and the pencil guide.…
Thomas Blacklock was born in 1721 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. He was appointed minister of Kirkcudbright, but, because the parishioners rejected the idea of a blind minister, he instead became a tutor in Edinburgh. Blacklock later received a doctor of divinity degree from Marischal College in 1767. He died in Edinburgh in 1791.