 | John Clark Murray - 1874 - 234 էջ
...different manifestations of conjugal love. Well may Burns have spoken of Nae Luck about the Bouse as " one of the most beautiful songs in the Scots or any other language " ; for what language can ever express, in words that burn with truer passion, the exultant gladness... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1875 - 168 էջ
...Readers who admire them arc on the right way to high and lasting pleasure. 39 21 Burns justly named this 'one of the most beautiful songs in the Scots or any other language.* 41 23 * I never saw anything like this funeral dirge,' says Charles Lamb, ' except the ditty which... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 էջ
...smooth his voice, His breath's like caller air; His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair. And will I see his face again ? And will I hear him speak ? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought, In truth I'm like to greet. For there's nae luck aboot the house,... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1900 - 482 էջ
...! The present moment is our ain ! The neist we never saw ! There 's nae luck about the house! &c.] And will I see his face again ? And will I hear him speak ? I'm downright dizzy with the joy ! In troth ! I'm like to greet ! There 's nae luck about the house!... | |
 | Henry Grey Graham - 1901 - 536 էջ
...has music in't, As lie comes up the stairs ; and in the sense of bewildered joy at Colin's return : And will I see his face again, And will I hear him speak ? 1 Some years after the luckless Jean Adams was dead, there was going about Ayrshire and the southern... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 էջ
...the /louse, which was first sung upon the streets and sold in a broadsheet about 1771 or 1772, as ' one of the most beautiful songs in the Scots or any other language.' It is still one of the mainstays and props of homely sentiment in Scotland. Its authorship is uncertain,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 էջ
...weel content, T hae nae mair to cruve: Could I but live to mak him blest, I'm blest aboon the lave: g 2 I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought, In troth I'm like to greet. For there's nae luck aboufthc house,... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1901 - 350 էջ
...! The present moment is our ain ! The neist we never saw ! There 's nae luck about the house ! &c.] And will I see his face again ? And will I hear him speak ? I'm downright dizzy with the joy ! In troth! I'm like to greet! There 's nae luck about the house!... | |
 | Mrs. Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggins, Nora Archibald Smith - 1916 - 784 էջ
...smooth his speech, His breath like caller air; His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair. And will I see his face again? And will I hear him speak? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought, In troth I'm like to greet! If Colin's weel, and weel content,... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - 1902 - 772 էջ
...and weel content, I hae nae mair to crave; And gin I live to keep him sae, I'm blest aboon the lave: And will I see his face again? And will I hear him speak? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought, The For there's nae luck about the house, Inglenook There's nae... | |
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His breath like caller air ; His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair. And will I see his face again ? And will I hear him speak ? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought, In troth I'm like 
