William Roscoe Monologue from The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy

From The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy by Allan Ramsay

male · philosophical · 57 sec

1795. "Whether the dialect of Scotland be more favourable to attempts of this nature, or whether we are to seek for the fact in the character of the people, or the peculiar talents of the writers, certain it is, that the idiom of that country has been much more successfully employed in poetical composition, than that of any other part of these kingdoms, and that this practice may here be traced to a very early period. In later times the beautiful dramatic poem of The Gentle Shepherd has exhibited rusticity without vulgarity, and elegant sentiment without affectation. Like the heroes of Homer, the characters of this piece can engage in the humblest occupations without degradation." (51) (Footnote 51: Roscoe's Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, vol. i. p. 296.)

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