The Book of British BalladsSamuel Carter Hall Douglas, printer, 1844 - 152 страници |
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... English genius , comprehended between the beginning of Charles the Second's reign and the times of Swift and Prior . Subsequent to that period , the genius of the English nation has chiefly been characterised by the correct , ele- gant ...
... English genius , comprehended between the beginning of Charles the Second's reign and the times of Swift and Prior . Subsequent to that period , the genius of the English nation has chiefly been characterised by the correct , ele- gant ...
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... English poetry . I should like to see what work a clever Frenchman would make with Chevy Chase and " the fine old ballad of Sir Patrick Spens . " The render- ing of " Hail , horrors , hail , " from Paradise Lost , into " Comment vous ...
... English poetry . I should like to see what work a clever Frenchman would make with Chevy Chase and " the fine old ballad of Sir Patrick Spens . " The render- ing of " Hail , horrors , hail , " from Paradise Lost , into " Comment vous ...
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... English . The Earl of Douglas said , ' I will carry this token of your prowess with me to Scotland , and place it on the tower of my Castle at Dalkeith , that it may be seen from far . ' ' By God , Earl Douglas , ' replied Sir Harry ...
... English . The Earl of Douglas said , ' I will carry this token of your prowess with me to Scotland , and place it on the tower of my Castle at Dalkeith , that it may be seen from far . ' ' By God , Earl Douglas , ' replied Sir Harry ...
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... Ile doe the best that doe I may , While I have power to stand : While I have power to weeld my sword , Ile fight with heart and hand . ' Our English archers bent their bowes , Their hearts were 2 THE BOOK OF BRITISH BALLADS .
... Ile doe the best that doe I may , While I have power to stand : While I have power to weeld my sword , Ile fight with heart and hand . ' Our English archers bent their bowes , Their hearts were 2 THE BOOK OF BRITISH BALLADS .
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... English archery They dealt full many a wound : But still our valiant Englishmen All firmly kept their ground : And throwing strait their bowes away , They grasp'd their swords so bright : And now sharp blows , a heavy shower , On ...
... English archery They dealt full many a wound : But still our valiant Englishmen All firmly kept their ground : And throwing strait their bowes away , They grasp'd their swords so bright : And now sharp blows , a heavy shower , On ...
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Страница 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...
Страница 71 - I'll forgive your Highland chief. My daughter ! Oh ! my daughter...
Страница 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.
Страница 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
Страница 61 - And saved from outrage worse than death The lady of the land ; And how she wept and...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.