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... say that the growth of the mind of a child resembles the growth of the mind of a people or nation . Those who are unable to read have the compensation of learning by heart , often more easily than those who can read ; and this is true ...
... say that the growth of the mind of a child resembles the growth of the mind of a people or nation . Those who are unable to read have the compensation of learning by heart , often more easily than those who can read ; and this is true ...
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... says ' Heave - ho ! ' When one is in a swing , one is inclined to sing in time to the movement of the body . This innate desire , that the voice should accompany the moving limbs rhythmically , has always existed in the human race ; and ...
... says ' Heave - ho ! ' When one is in a swing , one is inclined to sing in time to the movement of the body . This innate desire , that the voice should accompany the moving limbs rhythmically , has always existed in the human race ; and ...
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... say they begin with mere jests and riddles ; then , romantic tales are grafted thereon , success in winning a husband or a wife being made to depend on guessing or answering such riddles . This leads us to ballads of kinship and pure ...
... say they begin with mere jests and riddles ; then , romantic tales are grafted thereon , success in winning a husband or a wife being made to depend on guessing or answering such riddles . This leads us to ballads of kinship and pure ...
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... say some- thing as to the sources whence we get the texts of our ballads . Firstly , there are printed sources - beginning with the ' broadsides ' mentioned above ; but these do not as a rule go back much before the seventeenth century ...
... say some- thing as to the sources whence we get the texts of our ballads . Firstly , there are printed sources - beginning with the ' broadsides ' mentioned above ; but these do not as a rule go back much before the seventeenth century ...
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... Says , " Who must be his well - good guide , When he goes into that strange country ? " And then bespake that bonny child Until his father tenderly , Says , " Father , I'll have the hend steward , For he hath been true to you and me ...
... Says , " Who must be his well - good guide , When he goes into that strange country ? " And then bespake that bonny child Until his father tenderly , Says , " Father , I'll have the hend steward , For he hath been true to you and me ...
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Benjie best milk-kye Bewick Binnorie bonny boy bonny mill-dams braes of Yarrow bride brother Brown Adam bully Carlisle town Castle daughter Dick Dickie Dickie's drie Earl Earl of Mar Edward fain Fair Annie false steward father dear fool frae gane gang Gay Goshawk give thee gold gone Grahame Grime hame hand hang hast heir of Linne horse John Stewart Johnie Armstrong King Estmere lady fair Laird's Jock leugh lord and master lord of Learne Lord Phenix Lord Randal LYKE-WAKE DIRGE married maun merry milk-kye To maintain mother never night o'er Patrick Spence penny Percy Folio Popular Ballads pound pray quoth ride sall says Hobby Noble shame speed sister song steal steed ta'en tanner tell There's Thomas Potts Thou art thou shalt thou'st three kye trow true-love unto verse wife Willie word Young Bekie ΙΟ
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Page 132 - Late late yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi the auld moone in hir arme, And I feir, I feir, my deir master, That we will cum to harme.
Page 72 - In behint yon auld fail dyke, I wot there lies a new-slain Knight ; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ' His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet. ' Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane, And I'll pick out his bonny blue een : Wi...
Page 83 - 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 ! O think na ye my heart was sair, When my love dropt down and spak...
Page 83 - I'll make a garland of thy hair Shall bind my heart for evermair Until the day I die. O that I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; Out of my bed she bids me rise, Says,
Page 132 - O wha is this has don this deid, This ill deid don to me, To send me out this time o...
Page 56 - O where hae ye been, Lord Randal, my son? O where hae ye been my handsome young man?' 'I hae been to the wild wood; mother, make my bed soon, For I'm weary wi' hunting, and fain wald lie down.
Page 55 - O dinna ye mind, young man," said she, "When ye was in the tavern a drinking, That ye made the healths gae round and round, And slighted Barbara Allan?" 20 He turned his face unto the wall, And death was with him dealing: "Adieu, adieu, my dear friends all, And be kind to Barbara Allan.
Page 56 - O where hae ye been, my handsome young man?" "I hae been to the wild wood; mother, make my bed soon. For I'm weary wi' hunting, and fain wald lie down." "Where gat ye your dinner, Lord Randal, my son? Where gat ye your dinner, my handsome young man?
Page 70 - I dought neither speak to prince or peer, Nor ask of grace from fair ladye.' 'Now hold thy peace!' the lady said, 'For as I say, so must it be.' 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 91 - THERE was three ladies playd at the ba, With a hey ho and a lillie gay, There came a knight and played oer them a'.