[St. Ronan’s Well by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookSt. Ronan’s Well CHAPTER XIX 9/17
90 .-- DARK LADYE. The Dark Ladye is one of those tantalizing fragments, in which Mr. Coleridge has shown us what exquisite powers of poetry he has suffered to remain uncultivated.
Let us be thankful for what we have received, however.
The unfashioned ore, drawn from so rich a mine, is worth all to which art can add its highest decorations, when drawn from less abundant sources.
The verses beginning the poem which are published separately, are said to have soothed the last hours of Mr.Fox.They are the stanzas entitled LOVE. Note III., p.
252 .-- MAGO-PICO. This satire, very popular even in Scotland, at least with one party, was composed at the expense of a reverend presbyterian divine, of whom many stories are preserved, being Mr.Pyet, the Mago-Pico of the Tale, minister of Dunbar.
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