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Página ix
... heart of courtesie , " and at another overflowing with pathos , and tenderest feeling ; at one time swelling into all the pomp of chivalrick circumstance , and full of unmingled joy and triumph , at another mo- ment narrowing itself ...
... heart of courtesie , " and at another overflowing with pathos , and tenderest feeling ; at one time swelling into all the pomp of chivalrick circumstance , and full of unmingled joy and triumph , at another mo- ment narrowing itself ...
Página xx
... hearts believe this emblematick triumph of imperishable constancy , and true passion over death itself . The lovers in these compositions are ever found in " Their lives lovely , and in their death , undivided . " In cases where a ...
... hearts believe this emblematick triumph of imperishable constancy , and true passion over death itself . The lovers in these compositions are ever found in " Their lives lovely , and in their death , undivided . " In cases where a ...
Página xxi
... hearts that then held the world in gentle thrall , we seldom find that the shivering gallant was long excluded , for , as the minstrel has it , - With her feet as white as sleet , She strode her bower within , And with her fingers lang ...
... hearts that then held the world in gentle thrall , we seldom find that the shivering gallant was long excluded , for , as the minstrel has it , - With her feet as white as sleet , She strode her bower within , And with her fingers lang ...
Página xxvi
... hearts and affections of the people , and secured them for centuries from being swept away by the more elaborated and artificial strains which recent and succeeding times have accumulated . * The fables of the Ancients , that Swans ...
... hearts and affections of the people , and secured them for centuries from being swept away by the more elaborated and artificial strains which recent and succeeding times have accumulated . * The fables of the Ancients , that Swans ...
Página lxxix
... heart as the precious record of days for ever passed away that their grand , stern legends will be listened to with reverential awe , as if the voice of a remote ancestor , from the depths of the tomb , had woke the thrilling strains of ...
... heart as the precious record of days for ever passed away that their grand , stern legends will be listened to with reverential awe , as if the voice of a remote ancestor , from the depths of the tomb , had woke the thrilling strains of ...
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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.