The Poetical Works Of Armstrong Dyer And Green

Author : George Gilfillan
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ISBN 13 : 9781331119326
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green written by George Gilfillan and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations The eminent author of "The Art of Preserving Health" was born at Castleton, on the banks of the Liddel, in Roxburghshire, about the year 1709; a year remarkable, too, for the birth of Dr Johnson. The Liddel washes the romantic region of Liddesdale, described so graphically in "Guy Mannering," and forming a fit birthplace for a poet. One of the finest passages in Armstrong's poems is devoted to a panegyric on the Liddel: - "Such the stream On whose Arcadian banks I first drew air, Liddel; till now, except in Doric lays Tuned to her murmurs by her love-sick swains, Unknown in song: though not a purer stream, Through meads more flowery, more romantic groves, Rolls toward the western main. Hail, sacred flood! May still thy hospitable swains be bless'd In rural innocence; thy mountains still Teem with the fleecy race; thy tuneful woods For ever flourish; and thy vales look gay With painted meadows, and the golden grain!" It has been quite a fashion with poets, such as Thomson in his "Seasons," and Coleridge in his lines to the river Otter, beginning, "Dear native brook, wild streamlet of the west," to apostrophise their native rivers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.