The Scottish BalladsW. Tait, 1829 - 399 страница |
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... called various versions of similar compositions elsewhere published . One way and another , nearly two hundred distinct- ly different ballads have been thus laid before the public ; some of them in no fewer than six different forms ...
... called various versions of similar compositions elsewhere published . One way and another , nearly two hundred distinct- ly different ballads have been thus laid before the public ; some of them in no fewer than six different forms ...
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... called them forth . It seems to have been a custom of the people from all time , to throw incidents which impress- ed their minds into this historical form . We see them , at the present day , do something of the same kind , in regard ...
... called them forth . It seems to have been a custom of the people from all time , to throw incidents which impress- ed their minds into this historical form . We see them , at the present day , do something of the same kind , in regard ...
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... called the Lai le Frêne , preserved in English in the Auchinleck Manuscript , and in Nor- man in the Lais of Marie , which were written about the year 1250. " Tamlane ” may also be referred to the story of Thomas the Rhymer , who ...
... called the Lai le Frêne , preserved in English in the Auchinleck Manuscript , and in Nor- man in the Lais of Marie , which were written about the year 1250. " Tamlane ” may also be referred to the story of Thomas the Rhymer , who ...
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... called " the Sand , " par excellence , especially by a local poet , the imagination can hardly be restrained from forming the idea , that Sir Patrick was enjoying his ordinary walk along the fine beach in front of his house , when the ...
... called " the Sand , " par excellence , especially by a local poet , the imagination can hardly be restrained from forming the idea , that Sir Patrick was enjoying his ordinary walk along the fine beach in front of his house , when the ...
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... he has hanged them , bot mercie , † Up hich upon a grain . + * Gate . Without mercy . A forked branch of a tree is so called in Scotland - as also any other object in nature of a fork - shape . Now he is on to the North Inch gone , 3 12.
... he has hanged them , bot mercie , † Up hich upon a grain . + * Gate . Without mercy . A forked branch of a tree is so called in Scotland - as also any other object in nature of a fork - shape . Now he is on to the North Inch gone , 3 12.
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Страница 388 - gainst the English yew, To lift the Scottish spear. Yet his plate-jack was braced, and his helmet was laced, And his vaunt-brace of proof he wore ; At his saddle-gerthe was a good steel sperthe, Full ten pound weight and more. The baron returned in three days...
Страница 7 - He hadna gane a step, a step, A step but barely ane, When a bout flew out of our goodly ship, And the salt sea it came in. ' Gae, fetch a web o' the silken claith, Another o' the twine, And wap them into our ship's side, And let na the sea come in.
Страница 113 - And a' by the light of the moon, Until they came to yon wan water, And there they lighted down.
Страница 79 - I bade you bring him wi you, But forbade you him to slay." He was a braw gallant, And he rid at the ring; And the bonny Earl of Murray, Oh he might have been a king! He was a braw gallant, And he playd at the ba ; And the bonny Earl of Murray Was the flower amang them a'.
Страница 5 - O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this new ship of mine?' O up and spake an eldern knight, Sat at the King's right knee, 'Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor That ever sailed the sea.
Страница 389 - The bittern clamour'd from the moss, The wind blew loud and shrill ; Yet the craggy pathway she did cross To the eiry Beacon Hill. " I watch'd her steps, and silent came Where she sat her on a stone ; — No watchman stood by the dreary flame, It burned all alone.
Страница 389 - But it was not English gore. He lighted at the Chapellage, He held him close and still; And he whistled thrice for his little foot-page, His name was English Will. "Come thou hither, my little...
Страница 389 - Come thou hither, my little foot-page ; Come hither to my knee ; Though thou art young, and tender of age, I think thou art true to me. ' Come, tell me all that thou hast seen, And look thou tell me true ! Since I from Smaylho'me tower have been, What did thy lady do?
Страница 327 - And what will ye leave to your bairns and your wife, Edward, Edward? And what will ye leave to your bairns and your wife, When ye gang owre the sea, O?" — "The warld's room: let them beg through life, Mither, mither; The warld's room: let them beg through life; For them never mair will I see, O.
Страница 65 - And when we cam to the lower prison, Where Willie o' Kinmont he did lie — " O sleep ye, wake ye, Kinmont Willie, Upon the morn that thou's to die ? " "OI sleep saft, and I wake aft, It's lang since sleeping was fley'd frae me ; Gie my service back to my wife and bairns, And a' gude fellows that spier for me.