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Samuel Smiles
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Gerald Massey : Lyrics of Love
"Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less full of poetic power and beauty."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Smiles Print: Book
Gerald Massey : Songs of Progress
"Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less full of poetic power and beauty."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Smiles Print: Book
John Home : Douglas
'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long passage from Campbell's Poems, entitled "The Wizard's Warning", and recite, or rather act the passages with as much eloquence and action as we could muster.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Smiles Print: Book
Campbell : The Wizard's Warning
'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long passage from Campbell's Poems, entitled "The Wizard's Warning", and recite, or rather act the passages with as much eloquence and action as we could muster.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Smiles Print: Book
Walter Scott : Guy Mannering
'I remember, when a little boy, getting my first introduction to the novels of Walter Scott - then the "Great Unknown". One of my sisters, when an infant, was sent to the country to be nursed; and I used to accompany Peg Nielson, our servant, to see the child on Saturday afternoons... Peg was a capital story-teller and many a time did she entertain us with "auld warld" tales of brownies, fairies, ghosts and witches, often making our flesh creep. But she could also be amusing and cheerful in the adventures she narrated. While on the way to Clerkington Mains, I asked her to tell me a story. "Yes she would: it was a story of a gypsy woman and a little boy who was carried away in a ship by the smugglers." And then she began, and told me, in a manner that seemed most graphic, the wonderful adventures of Harry Bertram and Meg Merrilies, as related in the well-known novel of "Guy Mannering". Many years after I read the book and found that she had omitted nothing of the story: her memory was so good and her power of narration so excellent.'
