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Minstrelsy William Motherwell. The time may come when even these fragments will also be irretriev- ably borne beyond our reach . Collections of these ballads , printed as they orally exist , will , to those who succeed us , prove a ...
Minstrelsy William Motherwell. The time may come when even these fragments will also be irretriev- ably borne beyond our reach . Collections of these ballads , printed as they orally exist , will , to those who succeed us , prove a ...
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... comes to his true - love's bower he uniformly makes use of but one argument to gain admittance : O Rise , O Rise , Lady Margerie , O Rise and let me in ; For the rain rains on my yellow hair , And the dew draps on my chin . and much to ...
... comes to his true - love's bower he uniformly makes use of but one argument to gain admittance : O Rise , O Rise , Lady Margerie , O Rise and let me in ; For the rain rains on my yellow hair , And the dew draps on my chin . and much to ...
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... comes of deep and honest sympathy with the fates and fortunes of our fellow kind . In the spirit , too , with which such communications are made , in the same spirit must they be received and listened to . The auda- cious sceptick , who ...
... comes of deep and honest sympathy with the fates and fortunes of our fellow kind . In the spirit , too , with which such communications are made , in the same spirit must they be received and listened to . The auda- cious sceptick , who ...
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... comes de Strathern . Gillendrys at that period was no uncommon name in Scotland , for in another part of his chronicle , Wintown has recorded Maldowny mak Gillandrys , as a Bishop of St. Andrews . On looking to the poems from the ...
... comes de Strathern . Gillendrys at that period was no uncommon name in Scotland , for in another part of his chronicle , Wintown has recorded Maldowny mak Gillandrys , as a Bishop of St. Andrews . On looking to the poems from the ...
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... comes the dark . " One fertile source of the fabulous arises from the metaphors and figures of an imaginative age receiving in ignorant , dull , and pro- saick times a literal interpretation . Again , the exaggerations natu- ral to an ...
... comes the dark . " One fertile source of the fabulous arises from the metaphors and figures of an imaginative age receiving in ignorant , dull , and pro- saick times a literal interpretation . Again , the exaggerations natu- ral to an ...
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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.