Sir David Wilkie, R. A.

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Walter Scott Publishing Company, 1903 - 235 ページ
 

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202 ページ - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
37 ページ - GREAT spirits now on earth are sojourning : He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake, Who on Helvellyn's summit, wide awake, Catches his freshness from Archangel's wing...
171 ページ - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit ; And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
45 ページ - I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible confidence that my writings (and among them these little poems) will co-operate with the benign tendencies in human nature and society, wherever found ; and that they will, in their degree, be efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier.
42 ページ - A young man by the name of Wilkie, a Scotchman, has a very extraordinary work.' I was in the clouds, hurried over my breakfast, rushed away, met Jackson who joined me, and we both bolted into Wilkie's room. I roared out : ' Wilkie, my boy, your name's in the paper! ' ' Is it rea-al-ly,
44 ページ - Two Voices are there; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains; each a mighty Voice: In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty!
6 ページ - In his dedication to Hamilton, he says, " You must take these designs as a specimen of my occupations : the country gives no encouragement to heroic or historic subjects, and I am glad, therefore, to work in a humbler line ; and, without descending to mean and low objects, give a correct representation of ordinary life, which may be made pleasing and instructive as well as morally useful.
94 ページ - CHORUS. Carle, now the King's come ! Carle, now the King's come ! Thou shalt dance, and I will sing, Carle, now the King's come 1 Auld England held him lang and fast ; And Ireland had a joyfu...
198 ページ - Newton. But you were very silent. Wilkie. Raily? Newton. In fact, you said but one word. Wilkie. Raily? Newton. There it goes again ! Why, Dawvid, you never do say anything but raily. Wilkie. Raily!
207 ページ - Hogarth •with Swift, in his biting satire, with which he contemplates mankind only on the dark side, and takes special delight in representing them in a state of the most profound corruption, of the most frightful misery, I find in Wilkie a close affinity with his celebrated countryman, Sir Walter Scott. Both have in common that genuine, refined delineation of character which extends to the minutest particulars. In the soul of both there is more love than contempt of man ; both afford...

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