The Ballads and Songs of Scotland: In View of Their Influence on the Character of the PeopleMacmillan and Company, 1874 - 205 էջ |
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... the People John Clark Murray. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY R 782901 ASTO , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1917 LONDON CBAY , SONS , AND TAYLOR , PRINTERS , BREAD STREET HILL . PREFATORY NOTICE . THE following Essay was awarded a Prize.
... the People John Clark Murray. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY R 782901 ASTO , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1917 LONDON CBAY , SONS , AND TAYLOR , PRINTERS , BREAD STREET HILL . PREFATORY NOTICE . THE following Essay was awarded a Prize.
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... Essay was awarded a Prize offered by the St. Andrew's Society of Glasgow . By the terms of competition the copyright of the essay remained with the author ; and as it was written with a view to publication , it is now given to the world ...
... Essay was awarded a Prize offered by the St. Andrew's Society of Glasgow . By the terms of competition the copyright of the essay remained with the author ; and as it was written with a view to publication , it is now given to the world ...
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... essay should notice the precise subject to which it is limited . The essay is simply an investigation of the influence which the ballads and songs of Scotland may be shown to have exerted on the character of the Scottish people . It ...
... essay should notice the precise subject to which it is limited . The essay is simply an investigation of the influence which the ballads and songs of Scotland may be shown to have exerted on the character of the Scottish people . It ...
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... essay , will be dif- ferently determined by different persons ; and possibly a rigid criticism would exclude as irrelevant a consider- able amount of what is contained in the following pages . But the reader must meet with disappoint ...
... essay , will be dif- ferently determined by different persons ; and possibly a rigid criticism would exclude as irrelevant a consider- able amount of what is contained in the following pages . But the reader must meet with disappoint ...
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... essay has been to avoid all asser- 1 Eckermann's " Conversations of Goethe , " vol . i . , p . 162. Compare Lewes ' " Life of Goethe , " vol . ii . , p . 124 . tions with reference to national character and the causes at INTRODUCTION . xi.
... essay has been to avoid all asser- 1 Eckermann's " Conversations of Goethe , " vol . i . , p . 162. Compare Lewes ' " Life of Goethe , " vol . ii . , p . 124 . tions with reference to national character and the causes at INTRODUCTION . xi.
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Էջ 60 - I'll wage thee! Who shall say that Fortune grieves him While the star of hope she leaves him? Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me, Dark despair around benights me. I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy; Naething could resist my Nancy; But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met - or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Էջ 59 - Curst be the heart that thought the thought, And curst the hand that fired the shot, When in my arms burd Helen dropt, And died to succour me ! 0 think na ye my heart was sair, When my love dropt down and spak nae mair There did she swoon wi' meikle care, On fair Kirconnell Lee.
Էջ 123 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward slave — we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a
Էջ 150 - Ye lie, ye lie, ye liar loud ! Sae loud I hear ye lie : For Percy had not men yestreen To dight my men and me. " But I have dream'da dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Skye ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I.
Էջ 30 - Now, ye maun go wi' me," she said ; " True Thomas, ye maun go wi' me ; And ye maun serve me seven years, Thro' weal or woe as may chance to be.
Էջ 30 - Ye'll ne'er get back to your ain countrie.' 0 they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea. It was mirk mirk night, and there was nae stern star light, And they waded through red blude to the knee; For a' the blude, that's shed on earth, Rins through the springs o
Էջ 26 - Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said,
Էջ vii - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Էջ 54 - But thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation...
Էջ 107 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
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