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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... said , there was supposed to exist , in the ca- verns of the mountains , a dwarfish race of people , skilled in mechanical arts : these had often communi- cation with men ; stole away their children ; and acted in many respects similar ...
... said , there was supposed to exist , in the ca- verns of the mountains , a dwarfish race of people , skilled in mechanical arts : these had often communi- cation with men ; stole away their children ; and acted in many respects similar ...
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... said for the English style of a writer who , tell- ing us that a person's boots were of tanned leather , says , His jambeux were of cure buly . Rime of Sir Thopas , 3380 . Ses jambeux etoient de cuir bouilli Spencer himself , urged by ...
... said for the English style of a writer who , tell- ing us that a person's boots were of tanned leather , says , His jambeux were of cure buly . Rime of Sir Thopas , 3380 . Ses jambeux etoient de cuir bouilli Spencer himself , urged by ...
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... said surveev , admeer , & c . instead of survive , admire . " The other circumstance on which the sweetness of a language depends , is the combination of the con- sonants , which are in general much less harsh in the Scoto - Saxon than ...
... said surveev , admeer , & c . instead of survive , admire . " The other circumstance on which the sweetness of a language depends , is the combination of the con- sonants , which are in general much less harsh in the Scoto - Saxon than ...
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... said neglek , sel , twal ; stolen is stown ; doing , saying , are doin ' , sayin ' ; for describe , love , have , they said descriv , luv , hae : and instead of the harsh th , which , except the British , it is said no na- tion in ...
... said neglek , sel , twal ; stolen is stown ; doing , saying , are doin ' , sayin ' ; for describe , love , have , they said descriv , luv , hae : and instead of the harsh th , which , except the British , it is said no na- tion in ...
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... said that Venus , the Graces , and the Loves , composed the Idylls of Theo- critus , it cannot be pretended that they had a hand in such as these . I shall continue the history of pastoral poetry from a passage in Johnson's life of ...
... said that Venus , the Graces , and the Loves , composed the Idylls of Theo- critus , it cannot be pretended that they had a hand in such as these . I shall continue the history of pastoral poetry from a passage in Johnson's life of ...
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103 ページ - Indian mount; or faery elves, 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.
56 ページ - That strain again ! — it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, ( Stealing and giving odour !— Enough ; no more ; ( 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before.
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 ligs, 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...
45 ページ - Above all, such are their terrible graces of magic and enchantment, so magnificently marvelous are their fictions and fablings, that they contribute in a wonderful degree to rouse and invigorate all the powers of imagination, to store the fancy with those sublime and alarming images which true poetry best delights to display.
36 ページ - But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity.
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...