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... interesting body of short metrical tales , chiefly of a tragick complexion , which , though possessing all the features of real incident , and probably originating in fact , cannot now , after the lapse of many ages , be , with ...
... interesting body of short metrical tales , chiefly of a tragick complexion , which , though possessing all the features of real incident , and probably originating in fact , cannot now , after the lapse of many ages , be , with ...
Page ii
... interesting body of popular poetry , part of which , in point of antiquity , may fairly be esteemed equal , if not superior , to the most ancient of our written monuments , has owed its preservation princi- pally to oral tradition ...
... interesting body of popular poetry , part of which , in point of antiquity , may fairly be esteemed equal , if not superior , to the most ancient of our written monuments , has owed its preservation princi- pally to oral tradition ...
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... interesting portion of national literature , but the only step we are warranted in taking to remedy what Sir Thomas Browne has denominated " the supinity of elder times , " is that of preventing its future dilapidation , by now ...
... interesting portion of national literature , but the only step we are warranted in taking to remedy what Sir Thomas Browne has denominated " the supinity of elder times , " is that of preventing its future dilapidation , by now ...
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... interesting kind . They convey to posterity that description of song which is peculiarly national and characteristick ; that body of poetry which has inwoven itself with the feelings and passions of the people , and which shadows forth ...
... interesting kind . They convey to posterity that description of song which is peculiarly national and characteristick ; that body of poetry which has inwoven itself with the feelings and passions of the people , and which shadows forth ...
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... interesting species of national literature transmitted even to the present day , with a copiousness and fidelity almost rivalling the certainty and authenticity of written monuments , we are naturally led to inquire , not only into the ...
... interesting species of national literature transmitted even to the present day , with a copiousness and fidelity almost rivalling the certainty and authenticity of written monuments , we are naturally led to inquire , not only into the ...
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amang ancient ballads Andrew Lammie Annie auld baith ballad birk blude bonny Annie Border Minstrelsy bower brother brume blooms bonnie Childe Maurice Clerk Saunders collection copy daughter dear doun Earl Earl Marshall Edinburgh edition Editor Fair Janet fair Scotland father fause Fause Foodrage Finlay Fordie frae Fyvie gane gang Gil Morice given gowd green gude hame hand hey lillelu Hynd Horn Jamieson John Johnie Johnie Scot King king's knight Lady Maisry ladye laird land Lord mair Margaret maun Minstrel mother ne'er never o'er old ballads owre poetry Popular Ballads printed Queen rade recitation Reliques Ritson Romance says Scot Scottish Ballads shee Sir Patrick Spens sister spak stanza steed Syr Cauline ta'en thee thou Tiftie's traditionary TWA BROTHERS volume weel ye'll young Benjie Young Johnstone young Logie
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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. They hadna...
Page 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.
Page 374 - 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 !
Page 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...
Page 184 - O mak' my bed, Lady Mother," he says, " O mak' it braid and deep ! And lay Lady Marg'ret close at my back, And the sounder I will sleep." Lord William was dead lang ere midnight, Lady Marg'ret lang ere day — And all true lovers that go thegither, May they have mair luck than they ! Lord William was buried in St.
Page 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,
Page 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 !
Page 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!