Ancient Songs: From the Time of King Henry the Third, to the Revolution ...Joseph Ritson J. Johnson, 1790 - 332 من الصفحات |
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... Editor of the prefent volume to communicate a fmall but genuine collection of Ancient Songs and Bal- lads , which his attachment to the fubject had occafionally led him to form . The reader muft not expect to find , among the pieces ...
... Editor of the prefent volume to communicate a fmall but genuine collection of Ancient Songs and Bal- lads , which his attachment to the fubject had occafionally led him to form . The reader muft not expect to find , among the pieces ...
الصفحة xxi
... Editors poffeffion , [ not however in the folio MS . ] ; which being in a wretched corrupt ftate [ as all the Editors MSS . have the good fortune to be ] the fubject was thought worthy of fome embellishments . " Many other inftances ...
... Editors poffeffion , [ not however in the folio MS . ] ; which being in a wretched corrupt ftate [ as all the Editors MSS . have the good fortune to be ] the fubject was thought worthy of fome embellishments . " Many other inftances ...
الصفحة xxvi
... Editor who prefers truth to hypothefis , and the genuine remains of the Min- ftrel Poets , however mutilated or rude , to the indulgence of his own poetical vein , however fluent or refined . DISSERTATION DISSERTATION ON THE SONGS ...
... Editor who prefers truth to hypothefis , and the genuine remains of the Min- ftrel Poets , however mutilated or rude , to the indulgence of his own poetical vein , however fluent or refined . DISSERTATION DISSERTATION ON THE SONGS ...
الصفحة xxxvi
... editor to say , that it bears no refemblance to the hornpipe of modern times , being a very long and folemn compofition . ( 1 ) Hift . Music , iii . 2 . fome fome perfons ( and undoubtedly there are many ) to xxxvi DISSERTATION ON.
... editor to say , that it bears no refemblance to the hornpipe of modern times , being a very long and folemn compofition . ( 1 ) Hift . Music , iii . 2 . fome fome perfons ( and undoubtedly there are many ) to xxxvi DISSERTATION ON.
الصفحة xxxvii
... editor of the follow- ing collection , and written , partly at least , in the times of Richard II . and Henry IV . contains , perhaps , the oldest fpecimens of vulgar mufic that can be produced ; and , as it is rather a curiofity , a ...
... editor of the follow- ing collection , and written , partly at least , in the times of Richard II . and Henry IV . contains , perhaps , the oldest fpecimens of vulgar mufic that can be produced ; and , as it is rather a curiofity , a ...
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة lxvi - When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
الصفحة 179 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
الصفحة lxix - Go from my window, love, go ; Go from my window, my dear ! The wind and the rain Will drive you back again ; You cannot be lodged here.
الصفحة 181 - Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin to ope their golden eyes ; With everything that pretty is — My lady sweet, arise : Arise, arise.
الصفحة 224 - Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin (Some bee had stung it newly) ; But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face; I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July.
الصفحة 225 - Marched boldly up, like our trained band, Presented, and away. When all the meat was on the table, What man of knife or teeth was able To stay to be entreated ? And this the very reason was, Before the parson could say grace The company was seated.
الصفحة lxvii - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone, At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
الصفحة 223 - Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on, which they did bring, It was too wide a peck : And to say truth (for out it must) It looked like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck.
الصفحة lviii - Brome, brome on hill, The gentle brome on hill, hill: Brome, brome on Hive hill, The gentle brome on Hive hill, The brome standes on Hive hill a.
الصفحة xxi - Percy out of Northumberland, And a vow to God made he, That he would hunt in the mountains Of Cheviot, within days three, In the maugre of doughty Douglas, And all that ever with him be. The fattest harts in all Cheviot He said he would kill, and carry them away ; " By my faith," said the doughty Douglas again, " I will let that hunting if that I may.