The French Revolution And English Literature; Lectures Delivered in Connection With the Sesquicentennial Celebration of Princeton University
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The contrast is happily pointed by Professor Nichol when he places side by side the " Gentle Shep- herd" and the "Jolly Beggars": "The one is a court pastoral, like a minuet of the ladies of Versailles on the sward of the Swiss village near the Trianon ; the other is like the march of the Maenads with Thdroigne de Mericourt. . . . The graceless crew are raised above the level of gypsies, footpads, and rogues, and made, like Titans, to launch their thunders of rebellion against the world." The i...nfluence of the French Eevolution was to some extent a disturbing influence on the out- ward life of Burns. An exciseman in the em- 1 Dr. Service iu Ward's The English Poets, vol. iii. EARLY REVOLUTIONARY GROUP 145 ployment of the government had given pledges to law and order. When, in 1792, he purchased the guns of a condemned smuggler, which had gone ashore on the sands of the Solway Firth, it was as a gift for the French legislative hody, to which at the same time he addressed a letter expressing his admiration and esteem.
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