John Leyden

John Caspar Leyden (8 September 1775 – 28 August 1811) was a Scottish Indologist.

Quotes

• Alas! that Scottish maid should sing
    The combat where her lover fell!
  That Scottish Bard should wake the string,
    The triumph of our foes to tell!
  • "Ode on Visiting Flodden", quoted as an epigram in the front matter of Walter Scott's Marmion, ed. Thomas Bayne (Oxford, 1889)