The Falls of Clyde: Or, The Fairies; a Scotish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five Acts. With Three Preliminary DissertationsW. Creech, 1806 - 241 Seiten |
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... first scene of the second act of this Pastoral . With respect to the species , there are three kinds of Fairies ; the Continental Fairies , if I may call them so the Scotish or Gothic Fairy - and the English , which is a sort of middle ...
... first scene of the second act of this Pastoral . With respect to the species , there are three kinds of Fairies ; the Continental Fairies , if I may call them so the Scotish or Gothic Fairy - and the English , which is a sort of middle ...
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... first is , that the Scoto - Saxon dialect is superior to the Anglo - Saxon in point of purity ; and the second is , that it surpasses the latter in melody or sweetness of sound . When two dialects spring from a common source , that ...
... first is , that the Scoto - Saxon dialect is superior to the Anglo - Saxon in point of purity ; and the second is , that it surpasses the latter in melody or sweetness of sound . When two dialects spring from a common source , that ...
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... first was the vast number of translations which were then made , and which , unless the greatest care be used , affect both the idiom and words of the translator . The second cause was a kind of poetical necessity , in- duced by the ...
... first was the vast number of translations which were then made , and which , unless the greatest care be used , affect both the idiom and words of the translator . The second cause was a kind of poetical necessity , in- duced by the ...
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... first edition of that Poet's works . " Great efforts have been made ( says he ) by the inhabitants of Scotland , of a superior rank , to ap- proximate in their speech to the pure English standard ; and this has made it difficult to ...
... first edition of that Poet's works . " Great efforts have been made ( says he ) by the inhabitants of Scotland , of a superior rank , to ap- proximate in their speech to the pure English standard ; and this has made it difficult to ...
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... first was scarcely feen by the dawnings of a faint light , shone more and more , till it was illuminated by the glories of the perfect day . Such too feems to have been the genius of Milton ; the fcene which his imagination painted as ...
... first was scarcely feen by the dawnings of a faint light , shone more and more , till it was illuminated by the glories of the perfect day . Such too feems to have been the genius of Milton ; the fcene which his imagination painted as ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam auld baith beautiful Biſhop Bonniton brae canna Catharine cave charms Clyde dialect eclogues English faid fairy Faithful Shepherdess Falls of Clyde fame fatire fays feems feen fing firſt fome fong frae fuch green gude heard heart heaven hence houſe ilka ither Jamie Jean Johnſon laffie laſt maid maist maun Midsummer Night's Dream Milton mind moon moſt muſt Nae mair nane nature ne'er never night o'er Oberon obferves Oh dool paffage painted pastoral pastoral poetry perfon perhaps pleaſe pleaſure poem poetry poets Pope prefent Queen Queen Mab Quintilian rainbow green repreſented rhyme rocks ſays SCENE Scotish Scotland Shakeſpeare Shepherd ſhould Sir John ſome ſpeak ſtill ſtory stream Symon tald tell thee thefe Theocritus there's theſe thing thoſe thou Twas uſe verfe Virgil Voltaire weel Whan words writers
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 54 - ... more rhyming couplets are found, than in all the plays composed subsequently to that year, which have been named his late productions.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.