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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الصفحة xx
... original copy . " In the ballad beginning " Gentle Herdfman " ( ii . 79. ) " veftiges of feveral of the lines remaining , fome con- jectural fupplements have been attempted , which , for greater exactnefs , are , in this one ballad ...
... original copy . " In the ballad beginning " Gentle Herdfman " ( ii . 79. ) " veftiges of feveral of the lines remaining , fome con- jectural fupplements have been attempted , which , for greater exactnefs , are , in this one ballad ...
الصفحة xxi
... original is an old MS . poem in the 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 ...
... original is an old MS . poem in the 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 ...
الصفحة xxiii
... - fingers were under the neceffity of having most of the old Minstrel ballads they adopted new written ; another might be , that the originals were too short . b 4 How 1 How was it poffible that this rude language , THE MINSTREL S. xxiii.
... - fingers were under the neceffity of having most of the old Minstrel ballads they adopted new written ; another might be , that the originals were too short . b 4 How 1 How was it poffible that this rude language , THE MINSTREL S. xxiii.
الصفحة xxiv
... original , of course , became utterly neglected and forgot- ten , and but for its accidental difcovery by Mr. Hearne , would never have been known to exist . ( 2 ) Sir P. Sidney , Defence of Poetry , ( 3 ) " Fair Rofamond . ” John John ...
... original , of course , became utterly neglected and forgot- ten , and but for its accidental difcovery by Mr. Hearne , would never have been known to exist . ( 2 ) Sir P. Sidney , Defence of Poetry , ( 3 ) " Fair Rofamond . ” John John ...
الصفحة xxxii
... original language . Alison , the carpenters wife , had a great many accom- plishments : But of hire fong , it was as loud and yerne , As any fwalow fitting on a berne ( 10 ) . And the Wife of Bath , in her younger days , as fhe herself ...
... original language . Alison , the carpenters wife , had a great many accom- plishments : But of hire fong , it was as loud and yerne , As any fwalow fitting on a berne ( 10 ) . And the Wife of Bath , in her younger days , as fhe herself ...
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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.