The Ballads and Songs of Scotland: In View of Their Influence on the Character of the People |
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Scott has referred to the frequency of similar fictions in mediæval romance . Norse literature is also full of them : in fact , Mr. Child sees in the word Kemp ( Champion ) a monument of the relation of our ballads to the Koempeviser .
Scott has referred to the frequency of similar fictions in mediæval romance . Norse literature is also full of them : in fact , Mr. Child sees in the word Kemp ( Champion ) a monument of the relation of our ballads to the Koempeviser .
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... in the measure of the metrical romances , are exceedingly interesting and valuable , since they can scarcely be explained except as a corrupted snatch of one of the romances , and , therefore , as exhibiting , in its arrested ...
... in the measure of the metrical romances , are exceedingly interesting and valuable , since they can scarcely be explained except as a corrupted snatch of one of the romances , and , therefore , as exhibiting , in its arrested ...
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Among the popular heroes of romance enumerated in the introduction to the history of Tom Thumbe ( London , 1621 , bl . letter ) , occurs ' Tom a Lin , the devil's supposed bastard . ' ” ( Scott , in the " Border Minstrelsy , " vol . i ...
Among the popular heroes of romance enumerated in the introduction to the history of Tom Thumbe ( London , 1621 , bl . letter ) , occurs ' Tom a Lin , the devil's supposed bastard . ' ” ( Scott , in the " Border Minstrelsy , " vol . i ...
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The separation of this verse from the preceding was perhaps unfortunate : the two together tell , in its inner aspect , the whole of the romance which the song celebrates ; and , in doing so , reveal the spirit of all love - stories ...
The separation of this verse from the preceding was perhaps unfortunate : the two together tell , in its inner aspect , the whole of the romance which the song celebrates ; and , in doing so , reveal the spirit of all love - stories ...
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... had a romance composed on it by a man of eminence ; was the subject of a play , of an opera , of a pantomore amiable light , referring the persistent pressure of the suit to Auld Robin Gray :" Auld Robin argued sair .
... had a romance composed on it by a man of eminence ; was the subject of a play , of an opera , of a pantomore amiable light , referring the persistent pressure of the suit to Auld Robin Gray :" Auld Robin argued sair .
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