Minstrelsy: ancient and modern, with an historical intr. and notes, by W. Motherwell1827 |
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... editor of the present day , who may choose to impose on himself the thankless and uncalled - for labour of piecing and patching up its imperfections , polishing its asperities , correcting its mistakes , embellishing its naked details ...
... editor of the present day , who may choose to impose on himself the thankless and uncalled - for labour of piecing and patching up its imperfections , polishing its asperities , correcting its mistakes , embellishing its naked details ...
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... editors , liberties as uncalled - for as they are unpardonable in the eye of every rigid and honest critick . Some of these offences against truth and correct taste , are of a very deep , others of a lighter shade of criminal- ity , but ...
... editors , liberties as uncalled - for as they are unpardonable in the eye of every rigid and honest critick . Some of these offences against truth and correct taste , are of a very deep , others of a lighter shade of criminal- ity , but ...
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... editor of oral poetry succeeds in producing from the conflicting texts of his various authorities , a third version ... editing ancient ballads , by subjecting them to the process of refinement now described , though it be more conscien ...
... editor of oral poetry succeeds in producing from the conflicting texts of his various authorities , a third version ... editing ancient ballads , by subjecting them to the process of refinement now described , though it be more conscien ...
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... editor of Traditionary ballads , to avoid the perilous and frequently abortive task , of uniting discordant and ... editors , who , under no authority of written or recited copy , but merely to gratify their own insatiate rage for ...
... editor of Traditionary ballads , to avoid the perilous and frequently abortive task , of uniting discordant and ... editors , who , under no authority of written or recited copy , but merely to gratify their own insatiate rage for ...
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... editors . But in their bitter wrath and in their lachrymose ex- clamations against the licentiousness of ancient song , and the times which produced and could relish such foul dainties , and in the pains they take to detect the presence ...
... editors . But in their bitter wrath and in their lachrymose ex- clamations against the licentiousness of ancient song , and the times which produced and could relish such foul dainties , and in the pains they take to detect the presence ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ancient ballads Andrew Lammie Annie auld baith ballad birk bonnie banks bonny Annie Border Minstrelsy bower brother brume blooms bonnie Chield Morice Childe Maurice Clerk Saunders Clyde's water collection copy daughter dear doun Earl Marshall Edinburgh edition Editor Eh vow bonnie Fair Annie Fair Janet fair Scotland father fause Fause Foodrage Fordie frae Frendraught Fyvie gane gang Gil Morice gold gowd gude hame hand hey lillelu Hynd Jamieson John Johnie Scot King knight lady fair Lady Maisery ladye laird land Lord mair Maisry Margaret maun Minstrel mother ne'er never o'er old ballads owre poetry Popular Ballads printed recitation Reliques says sister song spak stanza steed Sweet Willie Syr Cauline ta'en thee thou Tiftie's traditionary true love TWA BROTHERS unto weel ye'll young young Benjie Young Johnstone
Pasajes populares
Página 121 - THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea...
Página liii - For Wetharryngton my harte was wo, That ever he slayne shulde be ; For when both his leggis wear hewyne in to, Yet he knyled and fought on hys kne.
Página 122 - Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Página 45 - Hame cam his gude horse, But never cam he! Out cam his auld mither Greeting fu' sair, And out cam his bonnie bride Rivin' her hair. Saddled and bridled And booted rade he; Toom hame cam the saddle But never cam he! "My meadow lies green, And my corn is unshorn, My barn is to bigg, And my babie's unborn.
Página 372 - Lie you there, dove Isabel, And all my sorrows lie with thee ; Till Kemp Owyne come ower the sea, And borrow you with kisses three, Let all the warld do what they will, Oh borrowed shall you never be !
Página 7 - As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The tane unto the t'other say, " Where sall we gang and dine to-day...
Página 98 - O what hills are yon, yon pleasant hills, That the sun shines sweetly on ? ' ' O yon are the hills of heaven,' he said, ' Where you will never win.' ' 0 whaten a mountain is yon, she said, ' All so dreary wi' frost and snow ? ' ' O yon is the mountain of hell,' he cried,
Página 21 - The starling flew to his mother's window stane, It whistled and it sang ; And aye the ower word o' the tune Was — " Johnie tarries lang !
Página 183 - They lighted down to tak a drink Of the spring that ran sae clear; And down the stream ran his gude heart's blood, And sair she gan to fear. "Hold up, hold up, Lord William," she says "For I fear that you are slain!
Página 185 - Out o' the lady's grave grew a bonny red rose, And out o' the knight's a brier. And they twa met, and they twa plat, And fain they wad be near ; And a' the warld might ken right weel, They were twa lovers dear.