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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... CHAPTER V. PAGE GENERAL INFLUENCE OF THE BALLADS AND SONGS . 167 1. Their Poetical Character 168 § 2. Extent of their Popularity 178 INDEX GLOSSARY 199 203 INTRODUCTION . " I knew a very wise man that vili CONTENTS .
... CHAPTER V. PAGE GENERAL INFLUENCE OF THE BALLADS AND SONGS . 167 1. Their Poetical Character 168 § 2. Extent of their Popularity 178 INDEX GLOSSARY 199 203 INTRODUCTION . " I knew a very wise man that vili CONTENTS .
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... popular declamation , it would be easy enough , conceal- ing the difficulty of afl such inquiries , to assert a number of questionable platitudes on the Scottish character and on the influences by which it has been formed . The aim in ...
... popular declamation , it would be easy enough , conceal- ing the difficulty of afl such inquiries , to assert a number of questionable platitudes on the Scottish character and on the influences by which it has been formed . The aim in ...
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... popular , on the ground of their acceptance among a people at large , and not merely among isolated indi- viduals or isolated sections of a community , still bear traces of their descent from heathen times . The recent researches of ...
... popular , on the ground of their acceptance among a people at large , and not merely among isolated indi- viduals or isolated sections of a community , still bear traces of their descent from heathen times . The recent researches of ...
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... popular imagination and entered so extensively into popular thought and language , should yet have in- fluenced so slightly the songs and ballads , even of a people over whom it appears to have exercised a more unrestricted tyranny than ...
... popular imagination and entered so extensively into popular thought and language , should yet have in- fluenced so slightly the songs and ballads , even of a people over whom it appears to have exercised a more unrestricted tyranny than ...
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... Popular Ballads and Songs , " vol . ii . p . 187. ) Willie's Laaye was taken by Scott from Mrs. Brown's MS . To the excellent memory of this lady we owe apparently the preservation of much popular poetry . ( See Jamieson's Advertisement ...
... Popular Ballads and Songs , " vol . ii . p . 187. ) Willie's Laaye was taken by Scott from Mrs. Brown's MS . To the excellent memory of this lady we owe apparently the preservation of much popular poetry . ( See Jamieson's Advertisement ...
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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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