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... death itself . The lovers in these compositions are ever found in " Their lives lovely , and in their death , undivided . " In cases where a message is to be run , a letter or token to be delivered , the same identity of expression , or ...
... death itself . The lovers in these compositions are ever found in " Their lives lovely , and in their death , undivided . " In cases where a message is to be run , a letter or token to be delivered , the same identity of expression , or ...
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... death are perused , and the facility with which easy melodies are fitted to them for the purpose of singing . * And it is a received proverb in our language , no doubt derived from the times when Minstrelsy was in its meridian glory ...
... death are perused , and the facility with which easy melodies are fitted to them for the purpose of singing . * And it is a received proverb in our language , no doubt derived from the times when Minstrelsy was in its meridian glory ...
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... death of Queen Jane , wife to King Henry VIII . , " the editor of the collection where it appears , after mentioning that it was written in the Reign of King James I. , observes that " that age so abounded with poets , that we owe ...
... death of Queen Jane , wife to King Henry VIII . , " the editor of the collection where it appears , after mentioning that it was written in the Reign of King James I. , observes that " that age so abounded with poets , that we owe ...
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... death of Alexander , till the decisive battle of Bannockburn , must have been peculiarly fertile in heroick song . Wallace , the idol of the people , and the gallant asserter of his country's independence , became the nucleus of a large ...
... death of Alexander , till the decisive battle of Bannockburn , must have been peculiarly fertile in heroick song . Wallace , the idol of the people , and the gallant asserter of his country's independence , became the nucleus of a large ...
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... death of Alex . III . , preserved in Wyntownis Cronykil , but his opinions on these matters are little to be regarded , for his ideas regarding what is old , and what is new , in our vernacular poetry , seem very unsettled . Of this ...
... death of Alex . III . , preserved in Wyntownis Cronykil , but his opinions on these matters are little to be regarded , for his ideas regarding what is old , and what is new , in our vernacular poetry , seem very unsettled . Of this ...
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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
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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...
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 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 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 !
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 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!
Page 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.