The Falls of Clyde: Or, The Fairies; a Scotish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five Acts. With Three Preliminary DissertationsW. Creech, 1806 - 241 páginas |
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... perhaps has ever been written , and which ( by raising high the standard of this sort of composition ) has rendered success extremely difficult , On both these points I shall endeavour to satisfy the INTRODUCTION, ...
... perhaps has ever been written , and which ( by raising high the standard of this sort of composition ) has rendered success extremely difficult , On both these points I shall endeavour to satisfy the INTRODUCTION, ...
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... perhaps of modern Latin poets , gives the muses the epithet of amantes mira camoenae , the wonder - loving muses ; and Shake- speare tells us that the pen of the poet turns his phan- tasies to shape , and " gives to airy nothing a local ...
... perhaps of modern Latin poets , gives the muses the epithet of amantes mira camoenae , the wonder - loving muses ; and Shake- speare tells us that the pen of the poet turns his phan- tasies to shape , and " gives to airy nothing a local ...
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... perhaps survive while the clear stream sweeps down the vale of Yarrow , or the yellow broom waves on the Cowdenknows . " Burns has made an important addition to the songs of Scotland : he has enlarged the poetical scene- ry of his ...
... perhaps survive while the clear stream sweeps down the vale of Yarrow , or the yellow broom waves on the Cowdenknows . " Burns has made an important addition to the songs of Scotland : he has enlarged the poetical scene- ry of his ...
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... perhaps , that I should endea- vour to shew the kind of creatures that Fairies were supposed to be ; and this perhaps may be best accom- plished by dividing the genus into its several distinct species : for , as to the existence of the ...
... perhaps , that I should endea- vour to shew the kind of creatures that Fairies were supposed to be ; and this perhaps may be best accom- plished by dividing the genus into its several distinct species : for , as to the existence of the ...
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... perhaps , as in hap- pier climates , from a warm imagination communicating life to every object , or attempting to account for the phenomena of nature : It arose perhaps from their solitude , and wild romantic situation , amid lonely ...
... perhaps , as in hap- pier climates , from a warm imagination communicating life to every object , or attempting to account for the phenomena of nature : It arose perhaps from their solitude , and wild romantic situation , amid lonely ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 54 - ... more rhyming couplets are found, than in all the plays composed subsequently to that year, which have been named his late productions.
Página 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.
Página 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...