The Ballads and Songs of Scotland: In View of Their Influence on the Character of the People |
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The stanes he threw at her fell short o ' the skin ; ' She's a lucky auld reiver , ' quo ' Tam o ' the Lin . " Tam o ' the Lin he married a wife , And she was the torment , the plague o ' his life ; She lays sae about her , and maks sic ...
The stanes he threw at her fell short o ' the skin ; ' She's a lucky auld reiver , ' quo ' Tam o ' the Lin . " Tam o ' the Lin he married a wife , And she was the torment , the plague o ' his life ; She lays sae about her , and maks sic ...
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... O ! * " Auld Nature swears , the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes , O ; Her ' prentice - hand she tried on man , And then she made the lasses , O. " Passing from those love - lyrics which are merely expressions of vague ...
... O ! * " Auld Nature swears , the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes , O ; Her ' prentice - hand she tried on man , And then she made the lasses , O. " Passing from those love - lyrics which are merely expressions of vague ...
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O waly , waly , but love be bonny A little time while it is new ; But when ' tis auld , it waxeth cauld , And fades away like the morning dew . " O wherefore should I busk my head ? Or wherefore should I kame my hair ?
O waly , waly , but love be bonny A little time while it is new ; But when ' tis auld , it waxeth cauld , And fades away like the morning dew . " O wherefore should I busk my head ? Or wherefore should I kame my hair ?
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... overpowering as that of Auld Robin Gray , the perfection of which , both in its general conception and in the detailed working out of its plot , makes it a remarkable instance of those efforts in which an author has once risen to ...
... overpowering as that of Auld Robin Gray , the perfection of which , both in its general conception and in the detailed working out of its plot , makes it a remarkable instance of those efforts in which an author has once risen to ...
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She told her that she was writing a ballad , in which she was overwhelming the heroine with misfortunes : " " I have already sent her Jamie to sea , and broken her father's arm , and made her mother fall sick , and sent her Auld ...
She told her that she was writing a ballad , in which she was overwhelming the heroine with misfortunes : " " I have already sent her Jamie to sea , and broken her father's arm , and made her mother fall sick , and sent her Auld ...
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