The Scottish BalladsRobert Chambers W. Tait, 1829 - 399 страница |
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... published in 1646 , thus quotes a verse from a ballad , which he says was composed on the death of the Knight of Liddisdale : The Countess of Douglas , out of her bowre she came , And loudly then that she did call ; It is for the Lord ...
... published in 1646 , thus quotes a verse from a ballad , which he says was composed on the death of the Knight of Liddisdale : The Countess of Douglas , out of her bowre she came , And loudly then that she did call ; It is for the Lord ...
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... who flourished in the thirteenth century . The tale of " Fair Annie " is found , with many others , in the great Danish collec- tion called the Kæmpe Viser , which was published in 1593 . the } 1 PREFACE . SINCE the publication of a few 5.
... who flourished in the thirteenth century . The tale of " Fair Annie " is found , with many others , in the great Danish collec- tion called the Kæmpe Viser , which was published in 1593 . the } 1 PREFACE . SINCE the publication of a few 5.
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... 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 . And a representation has been afforded of the condition in ...
... 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 . And a representation has been afforded of the condition in ...
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... published ballads ; which has been already done , to a cer- tain extent , by recent compilers ; but that , by a more daring exertion of taste , I have , in a great many instances , associated what seemed to me the best stanzas , and the ...
... published ballads ; which has been already done , to a cer- tain extent , by recent compilers ; but that , by a more daring exertion of taste , I have , in a great many instances , associated what seemed to me the best stanzas , and the ...
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... published , are so completely translated into the modern phraseo- logy of the vulgar , that it is impossible to say that they are genuine old ballads at all . Had they been , like the most of the English ballads published by Percy ...
... published , are so completely translated into the modern phraseo- logy of the vulgar , that it is impossible to say that they are genuine old ballads at all . Had they been , like the most of the English ballads published by Percy ...
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amang Andrew Lammie auld baith ballad blude bonnie bonnie Lizie Baillie Border bouir Braes bride brother busk castle cauld Clerk Saunders copy dear deir Douglas doun Earl fair Annie fair Janet fair Scotland father fause fell flouir frae gane gang Gordon gowd green gude hame hand haud Hazelgreen heart heid heire of Linne horse Jock John Johnie king kiss knicht lady ladye Laird Lammikin licht Liddesdale Lord maid Margaret maun micht Minstrelsy mony mother Motherwell nae mair nane ne'er never ower rade richt ride sall says Scottish Sir Patrick Spens sister slain spak stanzas steed sune sweet sweit Syde Syne taen thee thou toun true love twa sisters wadna weel weip Willie winna Yarrow ye maun ye'll Young Bekie young Huntin
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Страница 174 - The greenwood path to meet her brother: They sought him east, they sought him west, They sought him all the Forest thorough; They only saw the cloud of night, They only heard the roar of Yarrow! ' No longer from thy window look, Thou hast no son, thou tender mother! No longer walk, thou lovely maid!
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.
Страница 282 - How could you say my face was fair, And yet that face forsake? How could you win my virgin heart, Yet leave that heart to break?
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.
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