Ancient Songs: From the Time of King Henry the Third, to the Revolution ...Joseph Ritson J. Johnson, 1790 - 332 Seiten |
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... should feem , by the learned effayift , to ferve the purpose of an hypothefis , which , by this time perhaps , he begun to perceive would need more fupport than any author ancient or modern was ready to afford . The story is thus told ...
... should feem , by the learned effayift , to ferve the purpose of an hypothefis , which , by this time perhaps , he begun to perceive would need more fupport than any author ancient or modern was ready to afford . The story is thus told ...
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... should induce one to think , that there ever was a fingle Englishman , who " united the arts of poetry and mufic , and fung verfes to the harp of his own compofing ; nor in fact is any fuch authority to be found . If those writers who ...
... should induce one to think , that there ever was a fingle Englishman , who " united the arts of poetry and mufic , and fung verfes to the harp of his own compofing ; nor in fact is any fuch authority to be found . If those writers who ...
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... should feem , by the way , that the Minstrels of this æra had a dress to diflinguish their profeffion . The company , defcribed by the author whofe words are quoted , being feated in a tavern , " in comes a noife of musicians , IN ...
... should feem , by the way , that the Minstrels of this æra had a dress to diflinguish their profeffion . The company , defcribed by the author whofe words are quoted , being feated in a tavern , " in comes a noife of musicians , IN ...
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... should be poffeffed of fuch a number . Dr. Percy had the good fortune to meet with " an an- cient folio manufcript , which contains near 200 poems , fongs , and metrical romances . This MS . was written about the middle of the last ...
... should be poffeffed of fuch a number . Dr. Percy had the good fortune to meet with " an an- cient folio manufcript , which contains near 200 poems , fongs , and metrical romances . This MS . was written about the middle of the last ...
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... should maintain its ground against fuch lines as the following , fung to a beautiful melody , which we know belongs to them ? When as king Henry rul'd the land , The fecond of that name , Befides the queen he dearly lov'd A fair and ...
... should maintain its ground against fuch lines as the following , fung to a beautiful melody , which we know belongs to them ? When as king Henry rul'd the land , The fecond of that name , Befides the queen he dearly lov'd A fair and ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
alfo ancient ballad Becauſe biffhop bope Chrift compofed compofition Cotton library doth downe earl English faid faire Lady fame fatire fave feem fene fhall fhould fidlers fince fing firft flower of Northumberland Follow my love fome fong fore foule ftanzas ftill fubject fuch fung fweet fwete fyng gode gofyp grene Harleian library harp hart hath haue Henry Hiftory high trolollie huere inftrument John Dory king Knight kyng lady laft lero leue loley lollardie Lond London Lord Fenix loue Lully lyttyll fynger mafter maid merry Minstrels moft moſt mufic obferved Percy Placebo prefent preferved printed queen reafon reign ſaid Scotland ſhall ſhe Song ſtrand thee thefe ther theſe thofe thoſe thou tom boy Tomey Troly vnkyndnes vpon waffel Weft wend whofe Wolcu wold wyfe wyff wyll
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite lxvii - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone, At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.