The Tea-table Miscellany: A Collection of Choice Songs, Scots and English. In Four Volumes. By Allan Ramsay, Issue 420A. Donaldson and J. Reid. For A. Donaldson, 1762 - 448 pages |
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... Such beauty and pleasure does yield . The warblers are heard in the grove , The linnet , the lark , and the thrush , The blackbird , and fweet - cooing dove , With mufic inchant ev'ry bush . Come , let us go forth to the mead , Let us ...
... Such beauty and pleasure does yield . The warblers are heard in the grove , The linnet , the lark , and the thrush , The blackbird , and fweet - cooing dove , With mufic inchant ev'ry bush . Come , let us go forth to the mead , Let us ...
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... Such fcenes as ravish with delight ; Tho ' brighter than meridian rays , They dazzle not , but please the fight . • Blind god , give this , this only dart ,, I neither will , nor can her harm ; I would but gently touch her heart , And ...
... Such fcenes as ravish with delight ; Tho ' brighter than meridian rays , They dazzle not , but please the fight . • Blind god , give this , this only dart ,, I neither will , nor can her harm ; I would but gently touch her heart , And ...
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... Such fweets as beft can entertain The guft of all the fenfes . Her face a charming profpect brings , Her breath gives balmy bliffes ; I hear an angel when the fings , And taste of heaven in kiffes . Four fenfes thus fhe feafts with joy ...
... Such fweets as beft can entertain The guft of all the fenfes . Her face a charming profpect brings , Her breath gives balmy bliffes ; I hear an angel when the fings , And taste of heaven in kiffes . Four fenfes thus fhe feafts with joy ...
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... Such a love as mine for you . Tears and fighing could not move you ; For a lover ought to dare : When I plainly told I lov'd you , Then you faid I went too far . Are fuch giddy ways befeeming ? Will my dear be fickle ftill ? Conqueft is ...
... Such a love as mine for you . Tears and fighing could not move you ; For a lover ought to dare : When I plainly told I lov'd you , Then you faid I went too far . Are fuch giddy ways befeeming ? Will my dear be fickle ftill ? Conqueft is ...
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... such bliss in his view , Was ever a nymph so hard - hearted as mine ? She knows me fincere , and the fees how I pine ; She does not disdain me , nor frown in her wrath , But calmly and mildly refigns me to death . She calls me her ...
... such bliss in his view , Was ever a nymph so hard - hearted as mine ? She knows me fincere , and the fees how I pine ; She does not disdain me , nor frown in her wrath , But calmly and mildly refigns me to death . She calls me her ...
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Alake auld baith beauty Becauſe blate blefs'd blifs blyth bofom bonny braes breaft Broom of Cowdenknows charms chearful cou'd cry'd dear defire defpair delight deroll didle drink e'er ev'ry eyes faft faid fair falfe fcorn fhall fhepherd fhine fhou'd fighs filly fince fing fleep fmiles foft fome foon forrow foul fpring frae ftill fuch fwain fweet gowans are gay grace green hame happy heart highland laddie houſe Invermay Jeany Jenny kifs laddie laffie lafs laft Lochaber lov'd lover maid maun merry morning mufic muft muſt nae mair ne'er never night nymph o'er paffion pain Peggy pleaſe pleaſure rife Rob Morris rofe ſhall ſhe ſmile SONG ſpeak ſweet Syne tell thee thefe There's theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand tune Twas wawking Whilft Whofe wife wine wou'd Yarrow young
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