The Falls of Clyde: Or, The Fairies; a Scotish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five Acts. With Three Preliminary DissertationsW. Creech, 1806 - Всего страниц: 241 |
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... charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds . Paradise Lost , X. 781 . EDINBURGH : PRINTED FOR WILLIAM CREECH , AND LONGMAN , HURST , REES , AND ORME , AND J. MURRAY , FLEET - STREET , LONDON . A. SMELLIE , Printer ...
... charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds . Paradise Lost , X. 781 . EDINBURGH : PRINTED FOR WILLIAM CREECH , AND LONGMAN , HURST , REES , AND ORME , AND J. MURRAY , FLEET - STREET , LONDON . A. SMELLIE , Printer ...
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... charm of his writings will be always felt by him who has an observing eye , and a fympathifing mind . But , though Burns was a great genius , I do not think that his fancy had much range , that he belonged to the fame clafs , that he ...
... charm of his writings will be always felt by him who has an observing eye , and a fympathifing mind . But , though Burns was a great genius , I do not think that his fancy had much range , that he belonged to the fame clafs , that he ...
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... Charms of that fpecies of writing , to what owing - Theocritus - Short ac- count of pastoral poetry - The false notions of it generally enter- tained by poets and critics - This attributed chiefly to the character of the genius of ...
... Charms of that fpecies of writing , to what owing - Theocritus - Short ac- count of pastoral poetry - The false notions of it generally enter- tained by poets and critics - This attributed chiefly to the character of the genius of ...
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... charm of a rural life is the tranquillity it represents ; but , to a mind like Johnson's , tranquil- lity was a curse ( a ) . Indeed I do not know if a person of much mental energy , unless a proprietor , or land- scape painter , can ...
... charm of a rural life is the tranquillity it represents ; but , to a mind like Johnson's , tranquil- lity was a curse ( a ) . Indeed I do not know if a person of much mental energy , unless a proprietor , or land- scape painter , can ...
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... charm of the pastoral life consists in shewing the pic- ture of its tranquillity , while every thing base and mean is concealed . The shepherds , who are represented in eclogues , should be like the pastoral habits of those who ...
... charm of the pastoral life consists in shewing the pic- ture of its tranquillity , while every thing base and mean is concealed . The shepherds , who are represented in eclogues , should be like the pastoral habits of those who ...
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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 54 - ... more rhyming couplets are found, than in all the plays composed subsequently to that year, which have been named his late productions.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...