 | 1810 - 438 sider
...particular, called The Jolly Beggars, for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole...being a set of strolling vagrants, met to carouse, and barter their rags and plunder for liquor in a hedge alehouse. Yet even in describing the movements... | |
 | Robert Hartley Cromek - 1810 - 286 sider
...particular, called The Jolly Beggars, for humorous deicription and nice discrimination of character, is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole...being a set of strolling vagrants, met to carouse, and barter their rags and plunder for liquor in a hedge ale-house. Yet even in describing the movements... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 sider
...this admirable jeu d'esprit might furnish materials for a long essay. At present, suffice it to say, that for humorous description, and nice discrimination...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... | |
 | George Gleig - 1812 - 142 sider
...humorous description and nice discrimination of character, this cantata" say these able critics, " is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole...being a set of strolling vagrants, met to carouse, and barter their rags and plunder for liquor, in a hedge ale-house. Yet even in describing the movements... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 468 sider
...this admirable jeu. if esprit might furnish materials for a long essay. At present, suffice it to say, that for humorous description, and nice discrimination...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... | |
 | Points - 1823 - 164 sider
...particular, called The Jolly Beggars, for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole...being a set of strolling vagrants, met to carouse, and barter their rags and plunder for liquor in a hedge ale-house. Yet even in describing the movements... | |
 | 1823 - 174 sider
...particular, called The Jolly Beggars, for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole...being a set of strolling vagrants, met to carouse, and barter their rags and plunder for liquor in a hedge ale-house. Yet even in describing the movements... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 370 sider
...Jolly Beggars," says Sir Walter Scott, "for hamorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole...being a set of strolling vagrants, met to carouse and barter their rags and plunder for liquor in a hedge ale-house. Yet, even in describing the movements... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 sider
...particular, called The Jolly Beggars, for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole...being a set of strolling vagrants, met to carouse, and barter their rags and plunder for liquor in a hedge ale-house. Yet even in describing the movements... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 sider
...particular, called " The Jolly Beggars," for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole...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... | |
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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 set... 
