Minstrelsy of the Scottish border: consisting of historical and romantic ballads, collected [by sir W. Scott]. [Another], 1. kötet1821 |
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1. oldal
... nature ; and the remarks which follow have been added , to afford the general reader some information upon the character of Ballad Poetry . It would be throwing away words to prove , what all must admit , the general taste and pro ...
... nature ; and the remarks which follow have been added , to afford the general reader some information upon the character of Ballad Poetry . It would be throwing away words to prove , what all must admit , the general taste and pro ...
2. oldal
... natural tendency to employ them in a more refined and regulated manner for purposes of amusement . The sa- vage , after proving the activity of his limbs in the chase or the battle , trains them to more measured movements , to dance at ...
... natural tendency to employ them in a more refined and regulated manner for purposes of amusement . The sa- vage , after proving the activity of his limbs in the chase or the battle , trains them to more measured movements , to dance at ...
11. oldal
... Nature's first fruits , even a reader of refined taste will find his patience rewarded , by passages in which the rude minstrel rises into sublimity or melts into pathos . These were the merits which induced the classical Addison to ...
... Nature's first fruits , even a reader of refined taste will find his patience rewarded , by passages in which the rude minstrel rises into sublimity or melts into pathos . These were the merits which induced the classical Addison to ...
16. oldal
... customs of his own time . And here it may be . remarked , that the desire of the reciter to be intelligible , however natural and laudable , has been one of the greatest causes of the deterio- ration 16 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON.
... customs of his own time . And here it may be . remarked , that the desire of the reciter to be intelligible , however natural and laudable , has been one of the greatest causes of the deterio- ration 16 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON.
28. oldal
... natural to the language and the sweetest to the ear , after the complex system of the more courtly measures , used by Thomas of Ercel- doune , was laid aside , was that which , when originally introduced , we very often find arran- ged ...
... natural to the language and the sweetest to the ear , after the complex system of the more courtly measures , used by Thomas of Ercel- doune , was laid aside , was that which , when originally introduced , we very often find arran- ged ...
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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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9. oldal - 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...
10. oldal - To take the helm in hand, Till you go up to the tall top-mast ; But I fear you'll ne'er spy land.
207. oldal - 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.
lxii. oldal - 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.
70. oldal - 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...
11. oldal - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
207. oldal - 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,
204. oldal - 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.
205. oldal - 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.
cvii. oldal - 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.