Minstrelsy of the Scottish border: consisting of historical and romantic ballads, collected [by sir W. Scott]. [Another], 1. kötet1821 |
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... Archie of Ca'field , Armstrong's Goodnight 240 • · 246 • 260 273 278 287 The Fray of Suport , . 288 · Lord Maxwell's Goodnight , 298 The Lads of Wamphray , 314 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON POPULAR POETRY , AND ON THE VARIOUS vi CONTENTS .
... Archie of Ca'field , Armstrong's Goodnight 240 • · 246 • 260 273 278 287 The Fray of Suport , . 288 · Lord Maxwell's Goodnight , 298 The Lads of Wamphray , 314 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON POPULAR POETRY , AND ON THE VARIOUS vi CONTENTS .
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Scottish border. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON POPULAR POETRY , AND ON THE VARIOUS COLLECTIONS OF BALLADS OF BRITAIN , PARTICULARLY THOSE OF SCOTLAND . THE Introduction originally prefixed to this collection , was rather of a historical than ...
Scottish border. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON POPULAR POETRY , AND ON THE VARIOUS COLLECTIONS OF BALLADS OF BRITAIN , PARTICULARLY THOSE OF SCOTLAND . THE Introduction originally prefixed to this collection , was rather of a historical than ...
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... hard to give his lion , as he- ralds say , with a difference , or lie under the imputation of being a servile imitator . It is not probable that , by any researches of modern times , we shall ever reach back to an POPULAR POETRY . 3.
... hard to give his lion , as he- ralds say , with a difference , or lie under the imputation of being a servile imitator . It is not probable that , by any researches of modern times , we shall ever reach back to an POPULAR POETRY . 3.
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... must have that original power of embodying and detailing circum- stances , which can place before the eyes of others a scene which only exists in his own imagina- tion . This last high and creative faculty , name- POPULAR POETRY . 5.
... must have that original power of embodying and detailing circum- stances , which can place before the eyes of others a scene which only exists in his own imagina- tion . This last high and creative faculty , name- POPULAR POETRY . 5.
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... character of the language spoken by the tribe . But the pro- gress of the art is far more dependent upon the rise of some highly - gifted individual , possessing in a pre - eminent and uncommon degree the powers POPULAR POETRY . 7.
... character of the language spoken by the tribe . But the pro- gress of the art is far more dependent upon the rise of some highly - gifted individual , possessing in a pre - eminent and uncommon degree the powers POPULAR POETRY . 7.
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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.