Scottish Song: Its Wealth, Wisdom, and Social SignificanceW. Blackwood and sons, 1889 - 388 páginas |
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... give us , only without the scenic accompaniment , what may well be called the soul of a sacred opera , yet these grand efforts of professional skill are more of the nature of a brilliant exhibition for the few than of a popular delight ...
... give us , only without the scenic accompaniment , what may well be called the soul of a sacred opera , yet these grand efforts of professional skill are more of the nature of a brilliant exhibition for the few than of a popular delight ...
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... intellect of that inspired ploughman might not have prevailed to give a world - wide circulation to the Scottish Volkslied . It would have been Burns in that case that the Robert Burns . 7 world would have admired , not 6 Scottish Song .
... intellect of that inspired ploughman might not have prevailed to give a world - wide circulation to the Scottish Volkslied . It would have been Burns in that case that the Robert Burns . 7 world would have admired , not 6 Scottish Song .
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... give Scots- men a firm tread and a manly footing on the heather of their native hills . And if a general patriotic foundation is thus neglected in the more earnest domain of historical prose , it is not to be expected that the national ...
... give Scots- men a firm tread and a manly footing on the heather of their native hills . And if a general patriotic foundation is thus neglected in the more earnest domain of historical prose , it is not to be expected that the national ...
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... give to English far feathers a wider acceptance with native Scots than Scottish fair ones , we must notice specially the vanity of mothers - especially of those whose highest ambition for their children is that they should be able to ...
... give to English far feathers a wider acceptance with native Scots than Scottish fair ones , we must notice specially the vanity of mothers - especially of those whose highest ambition for their children is that they should be able to ...
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... gives electric affinities in the laboratory of the chemist , and the monogynic and polyandric alliances of the vegetable inflorescence . In the moral world , as a higher platform for the display of cognate divine mysteries , the same ...
... gives electric affinities in the laboratory of the chemist , and the monogynic and polyandric alliances of the vegetable inflorescence . In the moral world , as a higher platform for the display of cognate divine mysteries , the same ...
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Ae fond kiss Amang auld baith ballads Baroness Nairne Battle of Sheriffmuir bawbee beautiful blaw boatie rows bonnie lassie braes brave braw Burns cauld Cockpen Culloden dear doon drink drinking-song Edinburgh English fair Flowers frae Gaelic gane glen Glen Tilt Greek gude ha'e hae nane hame heart heather Hielan Highland bonnets Highland laddie hills honour human humour hundred pipers ilka Jacobite Joanna Baillie John Johnnie Johnnie Cope kail brose Kenmure's king lady Laird land lass lassie lived lo'e Lord love-songs lyrical mair married maun mony Muse nane but Highland native natural ne'er never noble o'er owre patriotic poet poetry popular song Robert Burns Scot Scotch Scotland Scottish song sing social song-writers sorrow Soumin sung sweet thee There's nae thou verse wadna weel wife wise young
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Página 384 - For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Página 172 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand or freeman fa', Let him follow me!
Página 384 - Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a
Página 122 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Página 155 - When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food, It ennobled our hearts, and enriched our blood; Our soldiers were brave, and our courtiers were good: Oh the roast beef of old England, And old England's roast beef!
Página 106 - It's a' to pleasure our gudeman, For he's baith leal and true. Rise, lass, and mak a clean fireside Put on the muckle pot ; Gie little Kate her cotton gown, And Jock his Sunday coat ; And mak their shoon as black as slaes, Their hose as white as snaw ; It's a' to please my ain gudeman, For he's been long awa'.
Página 126 - The snawdrap and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the weet o' the morn ; They pain my sad bosom, sae sweetly they blaw, They mind me o
Página 299 - Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more.
Página 90 - Langley-dale; His step is first in peaceful ha', His sword in battle keen" — But aye she loot the tears down fa
Página 64 - Glen? My minnie does constantly deave me, And bids me beware o' young men; They flatter, she says, to deceive me; But wha can think sae o