Scotish Songs: In Two Volumes, Volume 1 |
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... mentioned by any historian , or in any public document , or other writing ; their name and language so entirely disappearing , as if , according to Innes , the whole race had been cut off like a man that leaves no posterity : which gave ...
... mentioned by any historian , or in any public document , or other writing ; their name and language so entirely disappearing , as if , according to Innes , the whole race had been cut off like a man that leaves no posterity : which gave ...
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... mentioned by all its early writers as a different language from the Southern or English , " an assertion which , like most others of that ingenious gentleman , wants nothing but truth to support it . .... * previous to the introduction ...
... mentioned by all its early writers as a different language from the Southern or English , " an assertion which , like most others of that ingenious gentleman , wants nothing but truth to support it . .... * previous to the introduction ...
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... mentioned , which were doubt- less popular , and probably ancient at that time . Thus , for instance , in the prologue to Book XII .: " On salt stremes wolk Dorida and Thetis By rynnand strandis , nymphes and Naiades , Sic as we clepe ...
... mentioned , which were doubt- less popular , and probably ancient at that time . Thus , for instance , in the prologue to Book XII .: " On salt stremes wolk Dorida and Thetis By rynnand strandis , nymphes and Naiades , Sic as we clepe ...
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... mentioned by Bishop Douglas . In " The Life and Death of the Piper of Kilbarchan ; or , The Epitaph of Habbie Simson , " ( " Scots Poems , " 1706 , ) is the following line : " Now , who shall play ' The day it daws ? ' " The tune may ...
... mentioned by Bishop Douglas . In " The Life and Death of the Piper of Kilbarchan ; or , The Epitaph of Habbie Simson , " ( " Scots Poems , " 1706 , ) is the following line : " Now , who shall play ' The day it daws ? ' " The tune may ...
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... mentioned in this list ; and yet one may naturally wonder that it should omit so fine a composition as " Flowden Hill , " if then extant . See this at full length in " Ancient Songs , " p . 93 , ( 1790. ) Greuit should be Greuus . Two ...
... mentioned in this list ; and yet one may naturally wonder that it should omit so fine a composition as " Flowden Hill , " if then extant . See this at full length in " Ancient Songs , " p . 93 , ( 1790. ) Greuit should be Greuus . Two ...
Common terms and phrases
ALLAN RAMSAY Ancient Scotish antiquity appear Auld Rob Morris auld Robin Gray bagpipe baith ballad Baloo BANGOUR blythe bonnie Braes of Yarrow bride broom BROOM OF COWDENKNOWES Busk ye cauld Celts charms composition dear Donald e'er Edinburgh English fair frae gane gang nae mair genius green gude gudeman hame Haud awa heart Highland ilka Irish Janet Jenny Jynny King James kiss lady laird language lass lassie lo'e Lowland Scots maid mattam maun merit ne'er never nocht o'er original Picts Pinkie House Poems poetry printed quhen quoth Rob Morris sang says scheiphirdis Scotish music Scotish song Scotland Scots Musical Museum sing smiles snood sorrow stanzas sung swain sweet Syne Tea-table Miscellany thee There's nae luck thir thou tunes Tytler Waly weel wife Willie words writer young
Popular passages
Page 88 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 160 - I'll call a synod in my heart, And never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts did evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Page 144 - For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to Love, And when we meet a mutual heart Come in between, and bid us part ? Bid us sigh on from day to day, And wish and wish the soul away ; Till youth and genial years are flown, And all the life of life is gone ? But busy, busy, still art thou, To bind the loveless joyless vow, The heart from pleasure to delude, To join the gentle to the rude.
Page 59 - Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty Cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell. Highly they raged Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
Page 219 - They gi'ed him my hand, though my heart was in the sea; Sae auld Robin Gray he was gudeman to me. I hadna been a wife a week but only four, When mournfu...
Page 142 - Invite the tuneful birds to sing ; And while they warble from each spray, Love melts the universal lay. Let us, Amanda, timely wise, Like them improve the hour that flies, And in soft raptures waste the day Among the birks of Invermay.
Page 236 - Or wherefore should I kame my hair? For my true love has me forsook, And says he'll never love me mair.
Page 231 - He was in these to meet his ruin. The boy took out his milk-white milk-white steed, Unheedful of my dule and sorrow; But ere the toofal of the night He lay a corpse on the Braes of Yarrow.
Page 232 - But who the expected husband, husband is? His hands, methinks, are bathed in slaughter. Ah me! what ghastly spectre's yon, Comes, in his pale shroud, bleeding after? "Pale as he is, here lay him, lay him down; O lay his cold head on my pillow : Take off, take off these bridal weeds, And crown my careful head with willow.
Page 219 - Rob maintain'd them baith, and wi* tears in his e'e Said, Jennie, for their sakes, O, marry me! My heart it said nay ; I look'd for Jamie back ; But the wind it blew high, and the ship it was a wrack; His ship it was a wrack — why didna Jamie dee?