The Ballads and Songs of Scotland: In View of Their Influence on the Character of the People |
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... and entered so extensively into popular thought and language , should yet have influenced so slightly the songs and ballads , even of a people over whom it appears to have exercised a more unrestricted tyranny than over any other .
... and entered so extensively into popular thought and language , should yet have influenced so slightly the songs and ballads , even of a people over whom it appears to have exercised a more unrestricted tyranny than over any other .
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Still the language in which her solicitations were repelled , was certainly unwise when addressed to one whose malice it was so undesirable to provoke . “ Awa , awa , ye ugly witch , Haud far awa , and lat me be ; For I wadna kiss your ...
Still the language in which her solicitations were repelled , was certainly unwise when addressed to one whose malice it was so undesirable to provoke . “ Awa , awa , ye ugly witch , Haud far awa , and lat me be ; For I wadna kiss your ...
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100 , in an article Antiquities of Nursery Literature , ” to which my attention was drawn by the eulogistic language in which it is spoken of by Grimm ( “ Kindermährchen , ” vol . iii . p . 315 ) . “ Among the popular heroes of romance ...
100 , in an article Antiquities of Nursery Literature , ” to which my attention was drawn by the eulogistic language in which it is spoken of by Grimm ( “ Kindermährchen , ” vol . iii . p . 315 ) . “ Among the popular heroes of romance ...
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The old poet , moreover , was one with the soul of the true singer , who uses the measured language of verse as the natural outlet of his emotions , and finds a solace in " the sad mechanic exercise . " “ He that can plaine Dois thoil ...
The old poet , moreover , was one with the soul of the true singer , who uses the measured language of verse as the natural outlet of his emotions , and finds a solace in " the sad mechanic exercise . " “ He that can plaine Dois thoil ...
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delicious emotions which men owe to the influence of woman ; and this lyric has so woven itself into his countrymen's habits of thought , that a Scotchman , expressing himself on the subject , almost instinctively adopts the language of ...
delicious emotions which men owe to the influence of woman ; and this lyric has so woven itself into his countrymen's habits of thought , that a Scotchman , expressing himself on the subject , almost instinctively adopts the language of ...
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