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... Ballads . By James Hutton Watkins , Esq . , Ancient Cromlech at Ardenadam , near Dunoon . By A. D. Robertson , Esq . , . • 438 486 Notes and conjectures relative to the old Roman occupation and fortification of the Clyde and Kelvin ...
... Ballads . By James Hutton Watkins , Esq . , Ancient Cromlech at Ardenadam , near Dunoon . By A. D. Robertson , Esq . , . • 438 486 Notes and conjectures relative to the old Roman occupation and fortification of the Clyde and Kelvin ...
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... ballads , legends , and poetical tales , together with the fables and Minnegesang of the thirteenth century , present pictures of society exactly like what we know to have existed in England at and prior to the Norman Conquest , and ...
... ballads , legends , and poetical tales , together with the fables and Minnegesang of the thirteenth century , present pictures of society exactly like what we know to have existed in England at and prior to the Norman Conquest , and ...
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... ballad on the death of Alexander III . , of 1420 ; also , a small portion of Mr. Thorpe's translation from the Anglo - Saxon of Aelfrie's homilies , composed about 1050. Next he gives a copy of the catalogue of the library which ...
... ballad on the death of Alexander III . , of 1420 ; also , a small portion of Mr. Thorpe's translation from the Anglo - Saxon of Aelfrie's homilies , composed about 1050. Next he gives a copy of the catalogue of the library which ...
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... ballad one Scott of Dunrod thus figures : - - " The witches ride in Inverkip , And in Dunrod they dwell ; But the greatest loon amang them a ' Is auld Dunrod himsel ' . " These to - names were common among the Border mosstroopers two or ...
... ballad one Scott of Dunrod thus figures : - - " The witches ride in Inverkip , And in Dunrod they dwell ; But the greatest loon amang them a ' Is auld Dunrod himsel ' . " These to - names were common among the Border mosstroopers two or ...
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... ballad entitled , " A little geste of Robin Hode , " we read of " that gentyll knyghte , Sir Richard at the Lee ; " but in the ballad of later date this same Sir Richard is styled simply " Lee . " George à Green , or George of the Green ...
... ballad entitled , " A little geste of Robin Hode , " we read of " that gentyll knyghte , Sir Richard at the Lee ; " but in the ballad of later date this same Sir Richard is styled simply " Lee . " George à Green , or George of the Green ...
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Page 215 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 438 - The first line that Sir Patrick red, A loud lauch lauched he; The next line that Sir Patrick red, The teir blinded his ee. "O wha is this has don this deid, This ill deid don to me, To send me out this time o' the yeir, To sail upon the se!
Page 4 - I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder.
Page 4 - I must get quit of the condensed steam and injection water, if I used a jet as in Newcomen's engine. Two ways of doing this occurred to me. First the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an...
Page 446 - A' for the sake of their true loves ; For them they'll see na mair. O lang, lang, may the ladyes sit, Wi...
Page 459 - But wha will bake my bridal bread, Or brew my bridal ale ? And wha will welcome my brisk bride, That I bring o'er the dale...
Page 440 - O lang, lang may their ladies sit, Wi thair fans into their hand, Or eir they se Sir Patrick Spence Cum sailing to the land. O lang, lang may the ladies stand, Wi thair gold kems in their hair, Waiting for thair ain deir lords, For they'll se thame na mair.
Page 220 - He was a man of middle age ; In aspect manly, grave, and sage, As on king's errand come ; But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating, keen, and sly Expression found its home...
Page 439 - They hadna been a week, a week In Noroway but twae, When that the lords o...
Page 439 - Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. The ankers brak, and the topmasts lap, It was sic a deadly storm; And the waves cam o'er the broken ship, Till a