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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... songs are , in the first instance , due to its character . Every manifestation of character is thus at once evidence of the existence of a certain tendency , and a contribution to the force of the INTRODUCTION . xiii.
... songs are , in the first instance , due to its character . Every manifestation of character is thus at once evidence of the existence of a certain tendency , and a contribution to the force of the INTRODUCTION . xiii.
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... once explained as the work of some of those supernatural beings which peopled the fancy of our ancestors . Most of the superstitious conceptions thus originated , which we come upon in the legendary songs and ballads , have been handed ...
... once explained as the work of some of those supernatural beings which peopled the fancy of our ancestors . Most of the superstitious conceptions thus originated , which we come upon in the legendary songs and ballads , have been handed ...
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... once yield to the force of Christian teaching . As Roman Christianity became tainted by numerous symbols and festivals of the paganism it supplanted , so the Teutonic tribes , long after their conversion , clung to the old beliefs which ...
... once yield to the force of Christian teaching . As Roman Christianity became tainted by numerous symbols and festivals of the paganism it supplanted , so the Teutonic tribes , long after their conversion , clung to the old beliefs which ...
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... once ushered in a vaguely defined personage , gifted with extraordinary skill in the use of the harp , by which he soothes to sleep all his hearers , and charms a king's daughter on to his steed behind himself . " There cam a bird out o ...
... once ushered in a vaguely defined personage , gifted with extraordinary skill in the use of the harp , by which he soothes to sleep all his hearers , and charms a king's daughter on to his steed behind himself . " There cam a bird out o ...
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... once ; and there arises , accordingly , a lively bandying of impossible demands , the inability to perform which results in the retirement of the knight discomfited , the ballad concluding with a verse which sounds like the chorus of ...
... once ; and there arises , accordingly , a lively bandying of impossible demands , the inability to perform which results in the retirement of the knight discomfited , the ballad concluding with a verse which sounds like the chorus of ...
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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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