The Ballads and Songs of Scotland: In View of Their Influence on the Character of the PeopleMacmillan and Company, 1874 - 205 páginas |
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... married at once ; and there arises , accordingly , a lively bandying of impossible demands , the inability to perform which results in the retirement of the knight discomfited , the ballad concluding with a verse which sounds like the ...
... married at once ; and there arises , accordingly , a lively bandying of impossible demands , the inability to perform which results in the retirement of the knight discomfited , the ballad concluding with a verse which sounds like the ...
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... married a wife , And she was the torment , the plague o ' his life ; She lays sae about her , and maks sic a din , ' She frightens the baby , ' quo ' Tam o ' the Lin . " Tam o ' the Lin grew dourie and douce , And he sat on a stane at ...
... married a wife , And she was the torment , the plague o ' his life ; She lays sae about her , and maks sic a din , ' She frightens the baby , ' quo ' Tam o ' the Lin . " Tam o ' the Lin grew dourie and douce , And he sat on a stane at ...
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... married in a dress of this hue : - ' They that marry in green , Their sorrow is soon seen . > To this day , in the North of Scotland , no young woman would wear such attire on her wedding - day . Probably the saying respecting a lady ...
... married in a dress of this hue : - ' They that marry in green , Their sorrow is soon seen . > To this day , in the North of Scotland , no young woman would wear such attire on her wedding - day . Probably the saying respecting a lady ...
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... married to Sir Andrew Barnard , was accus- tomed to hear a servant of her father's sing an old Scots song , The Bridegroom grat when the Sun gaed down . Wishing to sing the tune , but disliking the words to which it was sung , she set ...
... married to Sir Andrew Barnard , was accus- tomed to hear a servant of her father's sing an old Scots song , The Bridegroom grat when the Sun gaed down . Wishing to sing the tune , but disliking the words to which it was sung , she set ...
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... marry him for their sakes ; and the contrast in the expression of this anxiety , by the harder nature of the father and the more sympathetic tenderness of the mother , forms a family picture of irresistible pathos : - " My father urged ...
... marry him for their sakes ; and the contrast in the expression of this anxiety , by the harder nature of the father and the more sympathetic tenderness of the mother , forms a family picture of irresistible pathos : - " My father urged ...
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