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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... hill . Indeed it is extremely worthy of being remarked , that Scotland has ever been considered as the country of strange productions , of enchantment , and of romance . The Caledonian forest was a favourite place for the Paladines ...
... hill . Indeed it is extremely worthy of being remarked , that Scotland has ever been considered as the country of strange productions , of enchantment , and of romance . The Caledonian forest was a favourite place for the Paladines ...
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... hills and dismal lakes . In such cases , where the ideas are few , fancy is ever busy to fill up the void which the uniformity of external objects leaves in the mind . The imagination blends itself with the reality , the wonderful with ...
... hills and dismal lakes . In such cases , where the ideas are few , fancy is ever busy to fill up the void which the uniformity of external objects leaves in the mind . The imagination blends itself with the reality , the wonderful with ...
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... hill , or valley low , The whilft in ocean Phoebus dips his wain , A vaft affembly moving to and fro ; Then all at once in air diffolves the wond'rous show . Indeed I have often thought it fortunate that , in ages of ignorance , the ...
... hill , or valley low , The whilft in ocean Phoebus dips his wain , A vaft affembly moving to and fro ; Then all at once in air diffolves the wond'rous show . Indeed I have often thought it fortunate that , in ages of ignorance , the ...
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... hills , or in the caverns of the rocks : in their dispositions they were capricious and resentful , but at the same time fond of an intercourse with men , from whom they sometimes borrowed , and to whom ( a vir- tue which it is to be ...
... hills , or in the caverns of the rocks : in their dispositions they were capricious and resentful , but at the same time fond of an intercourse with men , from whom they sometimes borrowed , and to whom ( a vir- tue which it is to be ...
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... hills , and rivers , supplied variety of matter , which , having a natu- ral power to soothe the mind , did not quickly cloy it . " Petrarch entertained the learned men of his age with the novelty of modern pastorals in Latin . Being ...
... hills , and rivers , supplied variety of matter , which , having a natu- ral power to soothe the mind , did not quickly cloy it . " Petrarch entertained the learned men of his age with the novelty of modern pastorals in Latin . Being ...
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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.