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... tradition supplies . The other class is much easier described . It embraces all those narrative songs , which derive their origin from historical facts , whether of a publick or private nature . The subjects of these are national or ...
... tradition supplies . The other class is much easier described . It embraces all those narrative songs , which derive their origin from historical facts , whether of a publick or private nature . The subjects of these are national or ...
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... tradition being in all matters relative to popular poetry , a safe and almost unerring guide . Language , which , in the written literature of a country , is ever vary- ing , suffers no material changes nor corruptions among the lower ...
... tradition being in all matters relative to popular poetry , a safe and almost unerring guide . Language , which , in the written literature of a country , is ever vary- ing , suffers no material changes nor corruptions among the lower ...
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... tradition has bequeathed to these latter times . Hence it has become of the first importance to collect these songs with scrupulous and unshrinking fidelity . If they are at all worth pre- serving , and no one who has an unsophisticated ...
... tradition has bequeathed to these latter times . Hence it has become of the first importance to collect these songs with scrupulous and unshrinking fidelity . If they are at all worth pre- serving , and no one who has an unsophisticated ...
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... tradition . All versions of a ballad so preserved by oral transmission from one age to another , are entitled to be considered as of equal authenticity , and coeval production , one with the other , although among them , wide and ...
... tradition . All versions of a ballad so preserved by oral transmission from one age to another , are entitled to be considered as of equal authenticity , and coeval production , one with the other , although among them , wide and ...
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... tradition may faith- fully transmit to us the narrative uninjured and unshorn of any part of its circumstance , nay even give the sentiments of the poet unaltered , and preserve the character of the piece precisely as at first ...
... tradition may faith- fully transmit to us the narrative uninjured and unshorn of any part of its circumstance , nay even give the sentiments of the poet unaltered , and preserve the character of the piece precisely as at first ...
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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.