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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... lover , whom the false fair one had " killed under trust , " and who leads her to destruction much in the same way as the charmer in the above ballads , forms the subject of the imperfect but im- pressive ballad Sir Roland , preserved ...
... lover , whom the false fair one had " killed under trust , " and who leads her to destruction much in the same way as the charmer in the above ballads , forms the subject of the imperfect but im- pressive ballad Sir Roland , preserved ...
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... lover while , as if to laugh . modern spiritualism out of countenance , even this super- stition gives way , among the ballad - singers themselves ; and at last in May Colvin , though there is a vanishing trace of the legendary features ...
... lover while , as if to laugh . modern spiritualism out of countenance , even this super- stition gives way , among the ballad - singers themselves ; and at last in May Colvin , though there is a vanishing trace of the legendary features ...
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... lover revisiting the object of his earthly passion ; and the ballad of Clerk Saunders , 1 which relates a similar imagi- nation , may also be noticed here . In the two former ballads , however , the return from the dead does not form ...
... lover revisiting the object of his earthly passion ; and the ballad of Clerk Saunders , 1 which relates a similar imagi- nation , may also be noticed here . In the two former ballads , however , the return from the dead does not form ...
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... lover from the doom to which he would have been consigned by her own people . There are other legends , however , in which the hero achieves his restoration to earth in defiance of the fairy powers ; and the ballad now to be described ...
... lover from the doom to which he would have been consigned by her own people . There are other legends , however , in which the hero achieves his restoration to earth in defiance of the fairy powers ; and the ballad now to be described ...
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... lover , is yet doubtful whether she will be able to recognize him " among so many unearthly knights . " Tamlane , accordingly , describes the order of the fairy procession which she must watch , the place which he will occupy in it ...
... lover , is yet doubtful whether she will be able to recognize him " among so many unearthly knights . " Tamlane , accordingly , describes the order of the fairy procession which she must watch , the place which he will occupy in it ...
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The Ballads and Songs of Scotland: In View of Their Influence on the ... John Clark Murray Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1874 |
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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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