 | Robert Fergusson, James Gray - 1821 - 292 Seiten
...see ye wi' a. suit on O' gude Braid Claith. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SCOTS MUSIC. Mark it, Ca?sario ! it is old and plain, The spinsters and the knitters...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it. Shakespeare's Twelfth Klgfit. ON Scotia's plains, in days of yore, When lads an' lasses tartan... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1821 - 278 Seiten
...cou'd see ye wi' a suit on O' gude Braid Claith. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SCOTS MUSIC. Mark it, Cssario ! it is old and plain, The spinsters and the knitters...sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bonei, Do use to chant it. Shakespeare'! Twelfth XigM. ON Scotia's plains, in days of yore, When lads... | |
 | 1821 - 724 Seiten
...secrets of the human heart, would have accounted to him why " old and plain songs," which The spinners and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt, and which, dally with the innocence of love, Like the old age, will always, so long as human nature... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 Seiten
...difference between the species of poem which is described, and that which is sung : " Mark it, Caesario ; it is old and plain. The spinsters, and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids who weave their thread with bones, Do wont to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence... | |
 | 1821 - 778 Seiten
...many varieties, is common in Northumberland — Your spinsters and your knitters in the sun, And those free maids that Weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it— it is «illy, sooth. Like most ballads, however, its vulgarity has a touch of the plaintive. .1 could only... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 Seiten
...weakness and my melancholy;" but for the satisfaction of the reader, I will quote the whole passage : " it is silly sooth, and dallies with the innocence of love, like the old age." " Cynthia. Well, let us to Endymion. I will not be so stately (good Endymion) not to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 Seiten
...weakness and my melancholy;" but for the satisfaction of the reader, I will quote the whole passage : " it is silly sooth, and dallies with the innocence of love, like the old age." " Cynthia. Well, let us to Endymion. I will not be so stately (good Endymion) not to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 Seiten
...alas, that they are so ; To die, even when they to perfection grow ! Re-enter Curio, and Clown. Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night : — Mark...sooth,' And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.2 Clo. Are you ready, sir ? Duke. Ay ; pr'ythee, sing. [Mmt. SONG. Clo. Came away, come... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 Seiten
...formerly, gave birth to the foregoing Poem. MAI-LET. EDWIN AND EMMA '. Mark it, Cesario, it is true and plain ; The spinsters and the knitters in the...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it : it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love. Like the old age. SHAKSH. Twelfth... | |
 | 1822 - 734 Seiten
...The songsters, and the knitters in the snn, And the free maids that weave their threads with bone, Do use to chaunt it. It is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. Syr Martyn is the longest of his poems. He could not have chosen a subject in itself much... | |
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The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. 
