Minstrelsy of the Scottish border: consisting of historical and romantic ballads, collected [by sir W. Scott]. [Another], Band 11821 |
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... attempt , however , to reprint a col- lection of ballads for a class of readers distinct from those for whose use the stall - copies were intended , was that of an anonymous editor of three 12mo volumes , which appeared in Lon- don ...
... attempt , however , to reprint a col- lection of ballads for a class of readers distinct from those for whose use the stall - copies were intended , was that of an anonymous editor of three 12mo volumes , which appeared in Lon- don ...
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... attempt to retort his injurious language . It would be now , no doubt , desirable to have had some more distinct account of Dr Percy's folio manuscript and its contents ; and Mr Thomas Percy , accordingly , gives the original of the ...
... attempt to retort his injurious language . It would be now , no doubt , desirable to have had some more distinct account of Dr Percy's folio manuscript and its contents ; and Mr Thomas Percy , accordingly , gives the original of the ...
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... attempt to emulate the merits and avoid the errors with which the old ballad was encumbered ; and in the effort to accomplish this , a new sort of composition was discovered , which is capable of being subjected to peculiar rules of ...
... attempt to emulate the merits and avoid the errors with which the old ballad was encumbered ; and in the effort to accomplish this , a new sort of composition was discovered , which is capable of being subjected to peculiar rules of ...
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... attempt to represent the composi- tion as ancient , and some entries in the public accounts of Bristol were appealed to in corro- boration . But neither was this ingenious but most unhappy young man , with all his powers of poetry , and ...
... attempt to represent the composi- tion as ancient , and some entries in the public accounts of Bristol were appealed to in corro- boration . But neither was this ingenious but most unhappy young man , with all his powers of poetry , and ...
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Scottish border. the very touches of the file , by which there is an attempt to imitate the cracks and fissures produced by the hammer upon the original . * * This failure applies to the repairs and rifacimentos of old ballads , as well ...
Scottish border. the very touches of the file , by which there is an attempt to imitate the cracks and fissures produced by the hammer upon the original . * * This failure applies to the repairs and rifacimentos of old ballads , as well ...
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ancient Angus Armstrongs auld baith ballad bard battle betwixt Bewcastle Border Buccleuch called Carlisle castle Cessford chief chieftain clan collection Dickie Douglas Earl Earl of Angus Edinburgh editor England English Ettricke Foreste fair frae gane gude hand Hobbie horse imitate Jedburgh Johnie Johnstone King King's Kinmont Kinmont Willie lads Laird Laird's Jock land Liddesdale Lochmaben Lord Maxwell Lord of Liddesdale Lord Scroope Maitland manrent Marches minstrel mony moss-troopers Murray ne'er never night noble Otterbourne Outlaw OUTLAW MURRAY Percy person poem poet popular poetry prisoner reciters rhymes ride Ritson sall Scot Scotland Scott Scottish SCOTTISH BORDER Sir John Sir Patrick Spens Sir Robert Kerr slain song spears stanza sword ta'en thai thair thee ther thou tion Tividale tyme verses warden weel William Willie word
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Seite 9 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown...
Seite 10 - To take the helm in hand, Till you go up to the tall top-mast ; But I fear you'll ne'er spy land.
Seite 207 - OI sleep saft, and I wake aft, It's lang since sleeping was fley'd frae me ; Gie my service back to my wife and bairns, And a' gude fellows that spier for me." Then Red Rowan has hente him up, The starkest man in Teviotdale — "Abide, abide now, Red Rowan, Till of my Lord Scroope I take farewell. " Farewell, farewell, my gude Lord Scroope ! My gude Lord Scroope, farewell ! " he cried — " I'll pay you for my lodging maill, When first we meet on the Border side.
Seite lxii - I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much ; But since I find the reason such, As it deserves no laughter.
Seite 70 - When Percy wi the Douglas met, I wat he was fu fain; They swakked their swords, till sair they swat, And the blood ran down like rain. But Percy with his good...
Seite 11 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Seite 207 - Then shoulder high with shout and cry We bore him down the ladder lang; At every stride Red Rowan made, I wot the Kinmont's aims played clang. 'O mony a time,
Seite 204 - Where be ye gaun, ye hunters keen?" Quo' fause Sakelde; "come tell to me!" "We go to hunt an English stag, Has trespassed on the Scots countrie.
Seite 205 - Where be ye gaun, ye broken men ?' Quo' fause Sakelde ; ' come tell to me !' Now Dickie of Dryhope led that band, And the never a word o' lear had he. ' Why trespass ye on the English side ? Row-footed outlaws, stand!' quo' he; The never a word had Dickie to say, Sae he thrust the lance through his fause bodie.
Seite cvii - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.