“The Author,” Act II,—Samuel Foote.
Samuel Foote, a noted English wag, impersonator and comic playwright, was baptized January 27, 1720, at Truro in Cornwall, and died at Dover, October 21, 1777. Of his popular plays the most notable are: “The Minor,” “The Liar,” and “The Mayor of Garratt.”
Facts are stubborn things.
Translation of “Gil Bias,”—Smollett.
Tobias George Smollett, a renowned British novelist, was born at Dalquhurn, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, in 1721, and died at Monte Novo, near Leghorn, Italy, October 21, 1771. A few of his numerous works are: “The Regicide,” “The Adventures of Roderick Random,” “Advice,” “The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle,” “The Reprisals,” “The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom,” “The Expedition of Humphry Clinker,” “Travels,” “Reproof,” and “Compendium of Voyages and Travels.”
There’s nae sorrow there, John,
There’s neither cauld nor care, John
The day is aye fair,
In the land o’ the leal.
“The Land o’ the Leal,”—Lady Nairne.
Lady Nairne (Carolina Oliphant), a famous Scotch poet, was born at Gask, Perthshire, in 1766, and died there, 1845. She wrote: “The Land o’ the Leal,” “Caller Herrin’,” and “The Laird o’ Cockpen.”
Too late I stayed,—forgive the crime!
Unheeded flew the hours;
How noiseless falls the foot of time
That only treads on flowers.
“Lines to Lady A. Hamilton,”—William Robert Spencer.