The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich

by Arthur Hugh Clough

THE

 

BOTHIE

 

OF

 

TOPER-NA-FUOSICH.

 

A LONG-VACATION PASTORAL.

 

BY ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH.

 

Nunc formosissimus annus.

 

OXFORD:
FRANCIS MACPHERSON.
LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 186, STRAND.
1848.

 

NOTE.

The reader is wanted to expect every kind of irregularity in these modern hexameters: spondaic lines, so called, are almost the rule; and a word will often require to be transposed by the voice from the end of one line to the beginning of the next.

 

 

MY LONG-VACATION PUPILS

WILL I HOPE ALLOW ME TO INSCRIBE THIS TRIFLE TO THEM, AND WILL NOT, I TRUST, BE DISPLEASED IF IN A FICTION, PURELY FICTION, THEY ARE HERE AND THERE REMINDED OF TIMES WE ENJOYED TOGETHER.

 

Parts (not listed in original)

• Part I
• Part II
• Part III
• Part IV
• Part V
• Part VI
• Part VII
• Part VIII
• Part IX
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