The Book of British BalladsSamuel Carter Hall Douglas, printer, 1844 - 152 páginas |
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... Hall has executed his task with much skill and taste . He was indebted to Percy's " Reliques of Ancient Poetry , " and to Scott's " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border , " for the majority of his specimens ; INTRODUCTION . ix.
... Hall has executed his task with much skill and taste . He was indebted to Percy's " Reliques of Ancient Poetry , " and to Scott's " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border , " for the majority of his specimens ; INTRODUCTION . ix.
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... Scottish Border , is the most satisfactory source of information with which I am acquainted ; it reviews all that has been urged by Dr. Percy , Ritson , and others , gives an account of the various editions which have appeared from the ...
... Scottish Border , is the most satisfactory source of information with which I am acquainted ; it reviews all that has been urged by Dr. Percy , Ritson , and others , gives an account of the various editions which have appeared from the ...
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... between noblemen " of that ilk . " Yet cannot that battle be expressly com- memorated ... border feud , without nice attention to chronological correctness . Frois ... Scottish woods Three summer days to take ; The cheefest harts in Chevy ...
... between noblemen " of that ilk . " Yet cannot that battle be expressly com- memorated ... border feud , without nice attention to chronological correctness . Frois ... Scottish woods Three summer days to take ; The cheefest harts in Chevy ...
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... Scottish Border , " having been communicated to Sir Walter by Mr. Laid- law , by whom it was taken down from ... Scotland under various shapes . But it is by no means peculiar to that country . England and Ireland have also their ...
... Scottish Border , " having been communicated to Sir Walter by Mr. Laid- law , by whom it was taken down from ... Scotland under various shapes . But it is by no means peculiar to that country . England and Ireland have also their ...
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... Scottish Border . " It is there given " chiefly from Mrs. Brown's MS . , with corrections from a revised fragment ... Scotland and on the Borders . England and Ireland have their own , and to this day the very scenes of supposed ...
... Scottish Border . " It is there given " chiefly from Mrs. Brown's MS . , with corrections from a revised fragment ... Scotland and on the Borders . England and Ireland have their own , and to this day the very scenes of supposed ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Aldingar arms arrow awaye babe ballad Balow barons blude bold bonny bower breast bright Colonsay comelye daughter dead dear deere eyes fair Annet fast father Fause Foodrage fayre fear fell fight frae gallant gane Gil Morrice gold grene wode gude hall hame hand hast hath heart heire of Linne Hermitage Castle King Arthur King Estmere kiss knee knight lady ladye land Little John Lord loud maid mair mankynde I love maun Minstrelsy ne'er never noble o'er Percy pretty Bessee queene quoth Robin Hood rose Rudiger sall sayd sayes Scott Scottish Scottish Border shee shold Sir Aldingar Sir Cauline Sir Patrick Spens Sir Walter Scott slain sleip song Soulis steed stood sweet sword tears thee weip thine thou art tree true love unto weel wold wyll Yett
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Página 71 - I'm the chief of Ulva's isle, And this Lord Ullin's daughter. — And fast before her father's men Three days we've fled together, For should he find us in the glen, My blood would stain the heather. His horsemen hard behind us ride ; Should they our steps discover...
Página 71 - I'll forgive your Highland chief. My daughter ! Oh ! my daughter...
Página 60 - Few sorrows hath she of her own. My hope ! my joy ! my Genevieve ! She loves me best, whene'er I sing The songs that make her grieve.
Página 34 - Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. The ankers brak, and the topmasts lap, It was sic a deadly storm; And the waves cam o'er the broken ship, Till a
Página 61 - And saved from outrage worse than death The lady of the land ; And how she wept and...
Página viii - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Página 150 - Knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. "His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet. "Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane, And I'll pick out his bonny blue een: Wi' ae lock o' his gowden hair We'll theek our nest when it grows bare.
Página 108 - The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. "How pleasant...
Página 60 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Página 34 - A' for the sake of their true loves ; For them they'll see nae mair. O lang, lang, may the ladyes sit, Wi' their fans into their hand, Before they see Sir Patrick Spens Come sailing to the strand ! And lang, lang, may the maidens sit, Wi' their goud kaims in their hair, A' waiting for their ain dear loves ! For them they'll see nae mair.