The Falls of Clyde: Or, The Fairies; a Scotish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five Acts. With Three Preliminary Dissertations |
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... Adam and Catharine ( the gude- man and the gude wife ) I have painted what Martial calls the " rus verum et barbarum . " Their language is of could calmly , or at least only with dignified and pleasing emotion , cre- ate a new one ...
... Adam and Catharine ( the gude- man and the gude wife ) I have painted what Martial calls the " rus verum et barbarum . " Their language is of could calmly , or at least only with dignified and pleasing emotion , cre- ate a new one ...
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... Adam and Catherine , the only other persons of whom I will here speak , though I have nothing to apprehend on the score of refinement , I am afraid that , by the weak , and still more by the malignant , a more serious objection will be ...
... Adam and Catherine , the only other persons of whom I will here speak , though I have nothing to apprehend on the score of refinement , I am afraid that , by the weak , and still more by the malignant , a more serious objection will be ...
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... Adam and Catherine are copied literally from particular life , and I could not soften the features without destroying the resemblance . I believe what pleasantry there is to be entirely innocent , or most assuredly I would not be the ...
... Adam and Catherine are copied literally from particular life , and I could not soften the features without destroying the resemblance . I believe what pleasantry there is to be entirely innocent , or most assuredly I would not be the ...
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... Adam Smith that , had Dryden possessed in any considerable degree the dra- matic genius of Shakespeare , he would have brought rhyming tragedies into fashion , and that nothing but laziness hinders us from writing them as they do in ...
... Adam Smith that , had Dryden possessed in any considerable degree the dra- matic genius of Shakespeare , he would have brought rhyming tragedies into fashion , and that nothing but laziness hinders us from writing them as they do in ...
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... Adam Smith is represented as altogether devoid of taste . I confefs one is apt to wonder at these and fimilar affertions . If men of high abilities like thefe , acquainted intimately with the best models , and whose writings display ...
... Adam Smith is represented as altogether devoid of taste . I confefs one is apt to wonder at these and fimilar affertions . If men of high abilities like thefe , acquainted intimately with the best models , and whose writings display ...
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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 - 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.
Page 56 - 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.
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 ligs, 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 45 - 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.
Page 36 - 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.
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...