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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... happy fonnets go ; Here thy feft verfe , made to a Scottish air , Are often fung by our Virginian fair . Camilla's warbling notes are bear'd no more , But yield to Laft time I came o'er the moor ; Hydafpes and Rinaldo both give way . To ...
... happy fonnets go ; Here thy feft verfe , made to a Scottish air , Are often fung by our Virginian fair . Camilla's warbling notes are bear'd no more , But yield to Laft time I came o'er the moor ; Hydafpes and Rinaldo both give way . To ...
Page ix
... Happy volumes ! you are to live too as long as the fong of Homer in Greek and English , and mix your afhes only with the odes of Horace . Were it but my fate , when old and ruffled , like you to be again reprinted , what a curious ...
... Happy volumes ! you are to live too as long as the fong of Homer in Greek and English , and mix your afhes only with the odes of Horace . Were it but my fate , when old and ruffled , like you to be again reprinted , what a curious ...
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... Happy volumes ! you are fecure ; but I must yield , please the ladies , and take care of my fame In hopes of this , fearless of coming age , [ nown'd , I'l fmile through life ; and when for rhyme re- I'll calmly quit the farce and giddy ...
... Happy volumes ! you are fecure ; but I must yield , please the ladies , and take care of my fame In hopes of this , fearless of coming age , [ nown'd , I'l fmile through life ; and when for rhyme re- I'll calmly quit the farce and giddy ...
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... Happy's the love which meets return 13 62 96 125 Have you any pots or pans Honeft man John Ochiltree How happy is the rural clown 186 How fhall I be fad when a husband I hae 201 Hid from himself now by the dawn 203 Here are people and ...
... Happy's the love which meets return 13 62 96 125 Have you any pots or pans Honeft man John Ochiltree How happy is the rural clown 186 How fhall I be fad when a husband I hae 201 Hid from himself now by the dawn 203 Here are people and ...
Page xviii
... happy , happy grove . " Op Ettrick banks , in a fummer's night O my heart ! my heavy , heavy heart O grant me , kind Bacchus Leifter , fam'd for maidens fair One Sunday after mass Of all the torment , all the care 257 2571 266 270 3752 ...
... happy , happy grove . " Op Ettrick banks , in a fummer's night O my heart ! my heavy , heavy heart O grant me , kind Bacchus Leifter , fam'd for maidens fair One Sunday after mass Of all the torment , all the care 257 2571 266 270 3752 ...
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