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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... of the waggon - spokes of spinner's legs , with fly charioteers , glow worms , and bracelets of emmet's eyes ; on the other hand , my fairies are not described as malicious and disagreeable ; they are such as these 16.
... of the waggon - spokes of spinner's legs , with fly charioteers , glow worms , and bracelets of emmet's eyes ; on the other hand , my fairies are not described as malicious and disagreeable ; they are such as these 16.
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... eye , and a sympathising mind . But , though Burns was a great genius , I do not think that his fancy had much range , that he belonged to the fame class , that he was moulded , if I may fay fo , in the fame model with a Homer , a ...
... eye , and a sympathising mind . But , though Burns was a great genius , I do not think that his fancy had much range , that he belonged to the fame class , that he was moulded , if I may fay fo , in the fame model with a Homer , a ...
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... eyes on the first ages of the world , and inquire into the manners of men " before they were formed into large societies , cities built , or commerce estab- lished ; a state ( says he ) of ease , innocence , and con- tentment , where ...
... eyes on the first ages of the world , and inquire into the manners of men " before they were formed into large societies , cities built , or commerce estab- lished ; a state ( says he ) of ease , innocence , and con- tentment , where ...
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... eye on the foregoing noble paffage , when he wrote the following verses . Souvent en s'attachant à des Fantômes vaines , Notre raifon feduite avec plaifir s'égare ; Elle - même jouit des plaifirs qu'elle a feints , Et cette illufion ...
... eye on the foregoing noble paffage , when he wrote the following verses . Souvent en s'attachant à des Fantômes vaines , Notre raifon feduite avec plaifir s'égare ; Elle - même jouit des plaifirs qu'elle a feints , Et cette illufion ...
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... eyes of an antiquary , that even the facred book itself becomes thereby more venerable . < c Hearne's character resembles one of Johannes Subfufcus , ' which I have somewhere feen whimsically drawn . ' Johannes Subfufcus , anti- quarius ...
... eyes of an antiquary , that even the facred book itself becomes thereby more venerable . < c Hearne's character resembles one of Johannes Subfufcus , ' which I have somewhere feen whimsically drawn . ' Johannes Subfufcus , anti- quarius ...
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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.