John Home



John Home (22 September 1722 – 5 September 1808) was a Scottish poet and dramatist.

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