 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 - Page 230by Robert Hartley Cromek - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 lehte
...present, suffice it to say, that for humorous description, and nice discrimination of character, it is inferior to no poem of the same length, in the whole 166 range of English poetry. — The recitative part is possessed of very considerable merit, but the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 468 lehte
...present, suffice it to say, that for humorous description, and nice discrimination of character, it is inferior to no poem of the same length, in the whole range of English poetry The recitative part is possessed of very considerable merit, but the songs constitute its chief excellence... | |
 | 1829 - 612 lehte
...does not hesitate to assert that ' for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, it is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole...being a set of strolling vagrants, met to carouse, and harter their rags and plunder foi liquor, in a hedge ale-house. Yet even in describing the movements... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 lehte
...most brilliant poetry. A cantata in particular, called " The Jolly Beggars," for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior...English poetry. The scene indeed is laid in the very lowestdepartment of low life, the actors being a set of strolling vagrants, met to carouse, and barter... | |
 | James M'Kie - 1866 - 48 lehte
...and other Pieces, appear here for the first time. "The ' Jolly Beggars,' for humorous description, and nice discrimination of character, is inferior...same length in the whole range of English Poetry." — WALTER SCOTT. Is not this the Edition CHAMBERS notices—" 1 2mo., Glasgow, 1801— W. M'MILLAN... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1871 - 692 lehte
...recommendation to any collection. For humorous description, and nice discrimination of character, it is inferior to no poem of the same length, in the whole range of English poetry. The Recitative part is possessed of very considerable merit; but the Songs constitute its chief excellence.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1876 - 536 lehte
...recommendation to any collection. For humorous description, and nice discrimination of character, it is inferior to no poem of the same length, in the whole range of English poetry. The Recitative part is possessed of very considerable merit; but the Songs constitute its chief excellence.... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1878 - 580 lehte
...Heaven to fall. — Matthew Arnold's Scholar Gipsy. i "The Jolly Beggars, for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior...their rags and plunder for liquor in a hedge ale-house The extravagant glee and outrageous frolic of the beggars are ridiculously contrasted with their maimed... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 lehte
...of " The Jolly Beggars," that " for humorous description and nice discrimination of character lit] is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole range of English poetry."] RECITATIVO. WHEN lyart leaves bestrew the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas'... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1879 - 566 lehte
...chap-book in Glasgow in 1798. Sir Walter Scott says: — "'The Jolly Beggars,' for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior...their rags and plunder for liquor in a hedge alehouse. 1 Hurry. fi Glanced. 0 Celtic. 2 Smokinjj, ciothes. 6 Scolding wife. 9 Dodging. 3 Singed hair. 7 Lowland.... | |
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