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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... rocks . The belief in the existence of such supernatural beings arose , in these countries , not , perhaps , as in hap- pier climates , from a warm imagination communicating life to every object , or attempting to account for the ...
... rocks . The belief in the existence of such supernatural beings arose , in these countries , not , perhaps , as in hap- pier climates , from a warm imagination communicating life to every object , or attempting to account for the ...
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... 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 wished we would condescend to ...
... 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 wished we would condescend to ...
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... rock or forest , to behold the storm travelling over the heath , or the furious agita- tion of the waves ; but I think a mere placid landscape cannot long fill the mind , but always leaves it empty and dissatisfied . From the very great ...
... rock or forest , to behold the storm travelling over the heath , or the furious agita- tion of the waves ; but I think a mere placid landscape cannot long fill the mind , but always leaves it empty and dissatisfied . From the very great ...
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... rock , holding you in my arms , and beholding at the same time my flocks and the Sicilian Sea . " Nothing , too , can be more beautiful than the description at the end of the 7th Idyll ; its chief fault is perhaps being too crowded , an ...
... rock , holding you in my arms , and beholding at the same time my flocks and the Sicilian Sea . " Nothing , too , can be more beautiful than the description at the end of the 7th Idyll ; its chief fault is perhaps being too crowded , an ...
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... rocks , richly crowned with groves , that spread their boughs and roots in that wild majestic style so admirably touched by Salvator Rosa . - It was in these bays that Claude and Poussin imbibed their ideas of landscape ; and surely ...
... rocks , richly crowned with groves , that spread their boughs and roots in that wild majestic style so admirably touched by Salvator Rosa . - It was in these bays that Claude and Poussin imbibed their ideas of landscape ; and surely ...
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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...