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... story is told after a different fashion in one district of the country , from what it is remembered in another . It therefore not un- frequently occurs , that no two copies obtained in parts of the country distant from each other , will ...
... story is told after a different fashion in one district of the country , from what it is remembered in another . It therefore not un- frequently occurs , that no two copies obtained in parts of the country distant from each other , will ...
Page xiii
... story is told after a different fashion in one district of the country , from what it is remembered in another . It therefore not un- frequently occurs , that no two copies obtained in parts of the country distant from each other , will ...
... story is told after a different fashion in one district of the country , from what it is remembered in another . It therefore not un- frequently occurs , that no two copies obtained in parts of the country distant from each other , will ...
Page xxxv
... story or legend unimpaired and unaltered from one genera- tion to another . An incident communicated in prose , which is the ordinary speech of mankind , may be traditionally preserved and transmitted with tolerable correctness as ...
... story or legend unimpaired and unaltered from one genera- tion to another . An incident communicated in prose , which is the ordinary speech of mankind , may be traditionally preserved and transmitted with tolerable correctness as ...
Page xxxvi
... story , but the words of the story , are to be handed down ; and this can only be accom- plished by the aid of numbers , cadence , and feli- citous expression , so framed as to be riveted in the memory . When books become abundant and ...
... story , but the words of the story , are to be handed down ; and this can only be accom- plished by the aid of numbers , cadence , and feli- citous expression , so framed as to be riveted in the memory . When books become abundant and ...
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... story , and even its main incidents , are narrated in language nearly uniform ; while the catastrophe in the one version differs altogether from that set forth in the other . In such a case it is plain that one at least of the ...
... story , and even its main incidents , are narrated in language nearly uniform ; while the catastrophe in the one version differs altogether from that set forth in the other . In such a case it is plain that one at least of the ...
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amang Armstrang auld baith BATTLE OF HARLAW bauld Binnorie Blind Harry bonnie mill-dams Border bower castle Clerk Saunders copy dear Dickie Douglas doun e'en Earl Edom ELORE fair fast fause flowers frae gane gar'd Gil Morice gowd green gude lord hae ta'en hame hand Harlaw Helen horse Huntley Item John Johnie King Kingis command Kinmont Willie knee lady ladye laird Laird's Jock Liddesdale Lizie Lizie Lindsay mair maun meikle minstrels Minstrelsy mony MOTHER'S MALISON Motherwell Murray nane ne'er never night o'er ower owre poem poetry quoth rade recitation ride Scotland Scots Sir Patrick Spens Sir Walter Scott sister slain spake stanzas steed Syne thee Thomas thou toun trow twa sisters weel wife Willie winna xiiij Yarrow ye maun ye'll
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Page 111 - THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. They hadna...
Page 112 - I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me In earthly flesh and blood!" It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were o
Page 2 - Now, ever alake! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm! I saw the new moon late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.
Page 48 - Then up and gat the seventh o' them, And never a word spake he ; But he has striped his bright brown brand Out through Clerk Saunders
Page 129 - Or wherefore should I kame my hair? For my true Love has me forsook, And says he'll never lo'e me mair.
Page 38 - He has gotten a coat of the even cloth, And a pair of shoes of velvet green ; And till seven years were gane and past, True Thomas on earth was never seen.
Page 40 - Curst be the heart that thought the thought, And curst the hand that fired the shot, When in my arms Burd Helen dropt, And died to succour me ! 0 think na ye my heart was sair, When my love dropt down and spak' nae mair ! There did she swoon wi' meikle care, On fair Kirconnell lea.
Page 1 - O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this new ship of mine ? " O up and spake an eldern knight, Sat at the king's right knee : " Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor, That ever sailed the sea.
Page 51 - Is there ony room at your head, Saunders? Is there ony room at your feet? Or ony room at your side, Saunders, Where fain, fain, I wad sleep?
Page 46 - Walked ower yon garden green ; And sad and heavy was the love That fell thir twa between. 'A bed, a bed,' Clerk Saunders said, ' A bed for you and me !' 'Fye na, fye na,' said may Margaret,