The Falls of Clyde: Or, The Fairies; a Scotish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five Acts. With Three Preliminary DissertationsW. Creech, 1806 - 241 ページ |
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... Pope , who fan the flowers , scatter the rain , and pour the stream . They thought that Genii mov'd the mighty frame , Directed all , and fill'd with vital flame : Hence Jove , hence Juno , in the fapphire heaven Were plac'd ; hence ...
... Pope , who fan the flowers , scatter the rain , and pour the stream . They thought that Genii mov'd the mighty frame , Directed all , and fill'd with vital flame : Hence Jove , hence Juno , in the fapphire heaven Were plac'd ; hence ...
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... inter- preters of that great dramatist than Warburton or Pope ( c ) . It would lead me beyond the limits which I have prescribed to myself in this Preface , to enter into a particular comparison of the Scotish and English dia- lects , 22.
... inter- preters of that great dramatist than Warburton or Pope ( c ) . It would lead me beyond the limits which I have prescribed to myself in this Preface , to enter into a particular comparison of the Scotish and English dia- lects , 22.
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... . But the writings of Pope and Voltaire ( s ) show how deeply they were affected by the wounds inflicted by the feeblest adversary . The sensibility of Montesqueiu is well known : A parody , it is said , of one of the odes of 58.
... . But the writings of Pope and Voltaire ( s ) show how deeply they were affected by the wounds inflicted by the feeblest adversary . The sensibility of Montesqueiu is well known : A parody , it is said , of one of the odes of 58.
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... Pope ) were to pass without reprehension , what should restrain them ? and upon bad writers alone will cen- sure have much effect . The satire , which brought Theobald and Moore into contempt , dropped impotent from Bentley , like the ...
... Pope ) were to pass without reprehension , what should restrain them ? and upon bad writers alone will cen- sure have much effect . The satire , which brought Theobald and Moore into contempt , dropped impotent from Bentley , like the ...
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... Pope ) conftantly availed themselves of the mention of particular mountains , rivers , and other objects of nature ; and indeed almost confine themselves to the tales and traditions of their respective countries . Whereas we have been ...
... Pope ) conftantly availed themselves of the mention of particular mountains , rivers , and other objects of nature ; and indeed almost confine themselves to the tales and traditions of their respective countries . Whereas we have been ...
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Adam auld baith beautiful Biſhop Bonniton brae canna Catharine cave charms Clyde dialect eclogues English faid fairy Faithful Shepherdess Falls of Clyde fame fatire fays feems feen fing firſt fome fong frae fuch green gude heard heart heaven hence houſe ilka ither Jamie Jean Johnſon laffie laſt maid maist maun Midsummer Night's Dream Milton mind moon moſt muſt Nae mair nane nature ne'er never night o'er Oberon obferves Oh dool paffage painted pastoral pastoral poetry perfon perhaps pleaſe pleaſure poem poetry poets Pope prefent Queen Queen Mab Quintilian rainbow green repreſented rhyme rocks ſays SCENE Scotish Scotland Shakeſpeare Shepherd ſhould Sir John ſome ſpeak ſtill ſtory stream Symon tald tell thee thefe Theocritus there's theſe thing thoſe thou Twas uſe verfe Virgil Voltaire weel Whan words writers
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103 ページ - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
84 ページ - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
5 ページ - ... with the characters and actions of such persons as have, many of them, no existence but what he bestows on them. Such are fairies, witches, magicians, demons, and departed spirits. This Mr. Dryden calls "the fairy way of writing...
47 ページ - Description) as she does in the Scottish Horizon. We are not carried to Greece or Italy for a Shade, a Stream or a Breeze. The Groves rise in our own Valleys; the Rivers flow from our own Fountains, and the Winds blow upon our own Hills.
54 ページ - ... more rhyming couplets are found, than in all the plays composed subsequently to that year, which have been named his late productions.
36 ページ - It is not (replied our philosopher) because they treat, as you call it, about love, but because they treat of nothing, that they are despicable : we must not ridicule a passion which he who never felt never was happy, and he who laughs at never deserves to feel — a passion which has caused the change of empires, and the loss of worlds — a passion which has inspired heroism and subdued avarice.
29 ページ - ... to their minds the interesting scenes of infancy and youth — to awaken many pleasing, many tender recollections. Literary men, residing at Edinburgh or Aberdeen, cannot judge on this point for one hundred and fifty thousand of their expatriated countrymen...
14 ページ - As when a shepherd of the Hebrid Isles*, Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
161 ページ - I've paced much this weary mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare — ' If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In others arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale.
9 ページ - ... they would not have obtained. The association of the words and the music of these songs, with the more beautiful parts of the scenery of Scotland, contributes to the same effect. It has given them not merely popularity, but permanence ; it has imparted to the works of man some portion of the durability of the works of nature. If from our imperfect experience of the past, we may judge with any confidence respecting the future, songs of this description are of all others least likely to die.