The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 215A. Constable, 1912 |
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Page 214
... Lady John is the last of our native - born singers , who , detesting elaborate psychological analysis and metrical mystifications , sings the elemental emotions in the old speech set to the quaint old melodies of the countryside - the ...
... Lady John is the last of our native - born singers , who , detesting elaborate psychological analysis and metrical mystifications , sings the elemental emotions in the old speech set to the quaint old melodies of the countryside - the ...
Page 229
... Lady John is deficient in a sense of humour . Much of Lady Nairne's best work is found in her humorous poems , where the laughter is tender and contagious . Lady Scott is unable to rise above the merely sprightly when she will be ...
... Lady John is deficient in a sense of humour . Much of Lady Nairne's best work is found in her humorous poems , where the laughter is tender and contagious . Lady Scott is unable to rise above the merely sprightly when she will be ...
Page 230
... Lady Nairne composed her last song in her seventy- sixth year . It was not until after her death that her sister , Mrs. Keith , published a set of poems entitled ' Lays of Strathearn , ' to which her name was affixed . Lady Nairne was ...
... Lady Nairne composed her last song in her seventy- sixth year . It was not until after her death that her sister , Mrs. Keith , published a set of poems entitled ' Lays of Strathearn , ' to which her name was affixed . Lady Nairne was ...
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