John Home
John Home (22 September 1722 – 5 September 1808) was a Scottish poet and dramatist.
Quotes
Douglas (first performed 1756)
- In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.- Act i, scene 1.
- I'll woo her as the lion wooes his brides.
- Act i, scene 1.
- My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills
My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain,
Whose constant cares were to increase his store,
And keep his only son, myself, at home.- Act ii, scene 1.
- A rude and boisterous captain of the sea.
- Act iv, scene 1.
- Like Douglas conquer, or like Douglas die.
- Act v, scene 1.
References to Home's work
- "Whaur's yer Wullie Shakespeare nou?"
- Spectator at early performance of Douglas.
- Hugh MacDiarmid, the twentieth century pioneer of the Scottish Renaissance, included the following lines in A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1922):
- My name is Norval. On the Grampian hills
- It is forgotten, and deserves to be[1]
References
- ↑ MacDiarmid, Hugh A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, ed. K. Buthlay (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987), l.2192-5
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