 The Jolly Beggars, for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole range of English poetry. The scene, indeed, is laid in the very lowest department of low life, the actors being a...  Select Scottish Songs, Ancient and Modern - Página 230de Robert Hartley Cromek - 1810Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Robert Burns - 1881 - 582 páginas
...chap-book in Glasgow m i798. Sir Walter Scott says:— "'The Jolly Beggars,' for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior to no poem of the same length m the whole range of English poetry. The scene, indeed, is laid in the very lowest department of low... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1895 - 512 páginas
...Cantata into his collection. For humorous description and nice discrimination of character, he thought it inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole range of English verse ; and the mirth of the songs, combined with the vividness of the pictures, he considered to be... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1900 - 332 páginas
...most brilliant poetry. A cantata in particular, called The Jolly Beggars, for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior...rags and plunder for liquor in a hedge ale-house. Tet even in describing the movements of such a group, the native taste of the poet has never suffered... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - 1903 - 732 páginas
...piece which Scott pronounced to be, " for humorous description and nice discrimination of character," " inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole range of English poetry." * The collection of lyrics, each assigned to an appropriate personage, is declared by the same high authority... | |
 | Martin Hardie - 1906 - 502 páginas
...what Sir Walter Scott calls ' a cantata for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole range of English poetry.' Greenwich Hospital : A Series of Naval Sketches, descriptive of the Life of a Man of War's Man, was... | |
 | 1903 - 602 páginas
...a piece which Scott pronounced to be "for humorous description and nice discrimination of character inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole range of English poetry." To expand or amplify such eulogy were impertinent. Yet we may call attention to the crescendo movement... | |
 | Donald A. Low - 1974 - 474 páginas
...which was often to be quoted as his own by later critics : The Jolly Beggars, for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior...same length in the whole range of English poetry. Moreover, he pretended to write as an Englishman ('doubtless our northern brethren are more familiar... | |
| |
