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... kings , and at the mansions of the principal nobility , some of whom exercised , if they did not rightfully possess , little less than regal authority , minstrelsy was a favourite pastime . It has always been so with northern nations ...
... kings , and at the mansions of the principal nobility , some of whom exercised , if they did not rightfully possess , little less than regal authority , minstrelsy was a favourite pastime . It has always been so with northern nations ...
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... King James , wounded but not slain , as Arthur had been conveyed by fairy hands to the vale of Avalon . Then there are the apparitions of the dead , whose repose in the grave has been disturbed , either be- cause they have still to ...
... King James , wounded but not slain , as Arthur had been conveyed by fairy hands to the vale of Avalon . Then there are the apparitions of the dead , whose repose in the grave has been disturbed , either be- cause they have still to ...
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... , to whose works I shall now refer . The foremost of these was James I. of Scotland , whose poem of " The King's Quhair " remains to us a monument of his genius . James , as is well known , was made a INTRODUCTION . lix.
... , to whose works I shall now refer . The foremost of these was James I. of Scotland , whose poem of " The King's Quhair " remains to us a monument of his genius . James , as is well known , was made a INTRODUCTION . lix.
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... sake of the rhythm , the accents require to be marked . As this can be done , in almost every instance , without altering the language , I think it preferable " The King's Quhair " is a poem of considerable lx INTRODUCTION .
... sake of the rhythm , the accents require to be marked . As this can be done , in almost every instance , without altering the language , I think it preferable " The King's Quhair " is a poem of considerable lx INTRODUCTION .
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun. " The King's Quhair " is a poem of considerable length , in which James narrates the circumstances of his capture and imprisonment , and the emo- tions awakened in his bosom by the apparition of Lady Jane ...
William Edmondstoune Aytoun. " The King's Quhair " is a poem of considerable length , in which James narrates the circumstances of his capture and imprisonment , and the emo- tions awakened in his bosom by the apparition of Lady Jane ...
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Page 113 - 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 lii - Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said,
Page 40 - He has gotten a coat of the even cloth, And a pair of shoes of velvet green ; And till seven years were gane and past, True Thomas on earth was never seen.
Page 39 - So thick beset with thorns and briers? That is the path of righteousness, Though after it but few enquires. 'And see ye not that braid braid road. That lies across that lily leven? That is the path of wickedness. Though some call it the road to heaven, 'And see ye not that bonny road That winds about the fernie brae?
Page 214 - And a harried man I think I be ! " There's naething left at the fair Dodhead, " But a waefu
Page 42 - O that I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries; Out of my bed she bids me rise, Says, 'Haste and come to me!
Page 4 - They hoysed their sails on Monenday morn, Wi' a' the speed they may ; They hae landed in Noroway, Upon a Wodensday. They hadna been a week, a week, In Noroway, but twae, When that the lords o' Noroway Began aloud to say, — 'Ye Scottishmen spend a' our King's goud, And a
Page 50 - Then up and gat the seventh o' them, And never a word spake he ; But he has striped his bright brown brand Out through Clerk Saunders