The Falls of Clyde: Or, The Fairies; a Scotish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five Acts. With Three Preliminary Dissertations |
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... given to the former a popularity which otherwise they would not have obtained . " " The association ( continues he ) of the words and the music of these songs with the more beautiful parts of the scenery of Scotland , contribute to the ...
... given to the former a popularity which otherwise they would not have obtained . " " The association ( continues he ) of the words and the music of these songs with the more beautiful parts of the scenery of Scotland , contribute to the ...
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... given . To tower - crown'd Cybele the earth they gave In charge ; and Neptune rul'd the toffing wave . So to the Sun , which blesses from afar , Immortal steeds were feign'd , and golden car : In trees the Dryads ; Naiads dwelt in ...
... given . To tower - crown'd Cybele the earth they gave In charge ; and Neptune rul'd the toffing wave . So to the Sun , which blesses from afar , Immortal steeds were feign'd , and golden car : In trees the Dryads ; Naiads dwelt in ...
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... given them chariots drawn by gnats , instead of horses , with harnesses of gossamour , and with covers of the wings of butterflies : And suitable to the delicacy of these tiny beings , is the nature of their employ- ment . I must go ...
... given them chariots drawn by gnats , instead of horses , with harnesses of gossamour , and with covers of the wings of butterflies : And suitable to the delicacy of these tiny beings , is the nature of their employ- ment . I must go ...
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... given us a specimen of the Lord's Prayer in Old Eng- lish , has these words : " Hitherto will our sparkfull youth laugh at their great - grandfathers ' English , whọ had more care to do well than to speak minion like , and left more ...
... given us a specimen of the Lord's Prayer in Old Eng- lish , has these words : " Hitherto will our sparkfull youth laugh at their great - grandfathers ' English , whọ had more care to do well than to speak minion like , and left more ...
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... given to every variety of external scenery . Let us hope , then , that the British Theocritus will , like Shakespeare , Milton , and Spenser , mingle Scotish words with his writings , and that the Sicilian muses will warble in Scotish ...
... given to every variety of external scenery . Let us hope , then , that the British Theocritus will , like Shakespeare , Milton , and Spenser , mingle Scotish words with his writings , and that the Sicilian muses will warble in Scotish ...
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The Falls of Clyde, Or the Fairies: A Scotish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five ... John Black No preview available - 2018 |
The Falls of Clyde: Or, the Fairies; A Scotish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five ... Emeritus Professor John Black No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 103 - 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.
Page 84 - 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.
Page 5 - ... 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...
Page 47 - 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.
Page 54 - ... more rhyming couplets are found, than in all the plays composed subsequently to that year, which have been named his late productions.
Page 36 - 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.
Page 29 - ... 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...
Page 14 - 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.
Page 161 - 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.
Page 9 - ... 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.