Select Scottish Songs, Ancient and Modern, Volume 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810 - Ballads, Scots |
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Page iii
... lines and the chorus , and others he merely arranged and ornamented . Let us take one of the best examples of his skill in imitating the old ballad . — Macpher- son's Lament was a well - known song many years before the Ayrshire Bard ...
... lines and the chorus , and others he merely arranged and ornamented . Let us take one of the best examples of his skill in imitating the old ballad . — Macpher- son's Lament was a well - known song many years before the Ayrshire Bard ...
Page xi
... line , remember , man , to die . November air maketh fields bare of flow'rs , of grass , and corn ; Then man arrives to fifty - five , and sick both e'en and morn : Loins , legs , and thighs , without disease , makes him to sigh and say ...
... line , remember , man , to die . November air maketh fields bare of flow'rs , of grass , and corn ; Then man arrives to fifty - five , and sick both e'en and morn : Loins , legs , and thighs , without disease , makes him to sigh and say ...
Page xiii
... line of the stanza ; but it breathes a kindred pensive melancholy from begin- ning to end . Many of the imitations in the Ode are so close and so obvious , that it is impossible they could be accidental . For instance , the last line of ...
... line of the stanza ; but it breathes a kindred pensive melancholy from begin- ning to end . Many of the imitations in the Ode are so close and so obvious , that it is impossible they could be accidental . For instance , the last line of ...
Page xiv
... , when he says , " An ' bleak December's winds ensuin Baith snell and keen , " the following line must have been floating in his mind : " December fell , baith sharp and snell . " It would be uncandid to suppose that the Editor has Xiv.
... , when he says , " An ' bleak December's winds ensuin Baith snell and keen , " the following line must have been floating in his mind : " December fell , baith sharp and snell . " It would be uncandid to suppose that the Editor has Xiv.
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... the verses are the following lines : " How oft those plains I've thoughtless prest ; . " Whistled or sung some Fair distrest , " When fate would steal a tear . " Allading , to whom I am indebted for the anecdote , kept 5 ROSLIN CASTLE. ...
... the verses are the following lines : " How oft those plains I've thoughtless prest ; . " Whistled or sung some Fair distrest , " When fate would steal a tear . " Allading , to whom I am indebted for the anecdote , kept 5 ROSLIN CASTLE. ...
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