 | 1845 - 440 pages
...after residing some thric n Liverpool, i< settled with her hushand in New York, North America. JOHN ANDERSON MY JO. JOHN ANDERSON, my jo, John, When we...first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your honnic hrow was hrent ; But now your hrow is held, John, Your locks are like the snaw ; But hlessings... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - English language - 1846 - 298 pages
...used to describe a high smooth forehead. In this sense we find it in the well-known Scotch song, John Anderson, my Jo — " John Anderson, my jo, John,...were like the raven ; Your bonnie brow was brent." among the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum (No. 1098), has to brere, or to be brered, as corn just... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Nathaniel Parker Willis - Gift books - 1846 - 120 pages
...I would give whole years of life To dream such dreams as thine ! 08) JJ'IDHH &H1DIE!R§DH KIT JdD. JOHN ANDERSON my jo, John, When we were first acquent,...locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; Bat now your brow is bald, John, Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow,... | |
 | Songs, English - 1847 - 906 pages
...joyful shouts rise from the shore. Its homeward prow to hail. We cast our lines in Largo bay, &c JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO JOHN ANDERSON, my jo, John, When we...were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, John, Your bonnie brow was brent ! But DOW your head's turn'cl bald, John, Your locks are like the... | |
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pages
...shore, \\iil that's all the use of a guinea. JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO. Music— at ZT Purday's, 45, Uolborn. JOHN Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,...Your locks were like the raven Your bonnie brow was brcu But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snow : Yet, blessings on your frosty... | |
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...brought to my mind the well-known lines of Burns : ' John Anderson my jo, John, When we were lirst acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent : But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snow But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my... | |
 | W A. Williamson - 1849 - 134 pages
...glen." — The term brant, smooth, sloping, is preserved in "John Anderson," in the form brent :— "John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent...were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent." The term fellow, feal-leaguc, faith bound, is at once a term of respect and of reproach, as fellow... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1880 - 1496 pages
...und vergleichen wir das beigefügte Original mit der Uebersetzung. Jobn Andereon, my jo John, \Vhen we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent; But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snaw; But blessings on your frosty pow, Jobn Anderson,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1875 - 676 pages
...of newness, brightness, and freshness I have always read the word brent in the Scotch song : — " John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonny brow was brent." C. Ross. TRIAL OF HENRT WALPOLE, SJ (5th S. iii. 367.) — In answer to DR.... | |
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1849 - 906 pages
...and me, And ilka lad and las?, John, in our footsteps to go, Makes perfect heaven here on earth, John Anderson, my jo. John Anderson, my jo, John, when we were first acquaint, Your locks were like the raven, your bonnie brow was brent, But now your head's turned bald,... | |
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MY JO. JOHN Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent ; Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is beld, John Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. John Anderson... 
