A Paper on Ballad Literature Read at the Manchester Athena Um Debating Society1873 - 43 pages |
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... difference residing partly in the expression , but essentially in the conception of the poet's thought . Looking to the strict philosophical signification of the two terms I have , with some looseness , ventured to use , I may sumup my ...
... difference residing partly in the expression , but essentially in the conception of the poet's thought . Looking to the strict philosophical signification of the two terms I have , with some looseness , ventured to use , I may sumup my ...
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... difference in tone between modern and ancient poesy ; or perhaps it would be more nearly accurate to say , between the poetry of a cultivated and of an uncultivated age . This difference is in many points . Such , for example , as that ...
... difference in tone between modern and ancient poesy ; or perhaps it would be more nearly accurate to say , between the poetry of a cultivated and of an uncultivated age . This difference is in many points . Such , for example , as that ...
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... , " and I may compare it with the same conception as set forth by Goethe in " Faust . " Both are perfect in their way ; but the difference is radical between the materialistic lubber - fiend described in the thirty BALLAD LITERATURE .
... , " and I may compare it with the same conception as set forth by Goethe in " Faust . " Both are perfect in their way ; but the difference is radical between the materialistic lubber - fiend described in the thirty BALLAD LITERATURE .
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... difference is radical between this conception and that of Goethe , who , acting on the motto that " the prince of darkness is a gentleman , " makes his fiend smooth , plau- sible , and unutterably base , so that to him no crime comes ...
... difference is radical between this conception and that of Goethe , who , acting on the motto that " the prince of darkness is a gentleman , " makes his fiend smooth , plau- sible , and unutterably base , so that to him no crime comes ...
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... difference between modern and ancient poetry , I do so by way of accounting for the generally received notion that a ballad is peculiarly a thing of the past — a species of poetry impossible to our modern tone of thought ; but I have ...
... difference between modern and ancient poetry , I do so by way of accounting for the generally received notion that a ballad is peculiarly a thing of the past — a species of poetry impossible to our modern tone of thought ; but I have ...
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Page 5 - Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine : While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before...
Page 12 - There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane.
Page 6 - SEE ! the smoking bowl before us, Mark our jovial ragged ring ; Round and round take up the chorus, And in raptures let us sing : CHORUS. A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest.
Page 5 - Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere Nor any drop to drink. • The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
Page 7 - Life is all a variorum, We regard not how it goes ; Let them cant about decorum Who have characters to lose, A fig, &c.
Page 21 - The air broke into a mist with bells, The old walls rocked with the crowd and cries. Had I said, " Good folk, mere noise repels — But give me your sun from yonder skies!" They had answered
Page 10 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Page 12 - Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Page 11 - I wish I were where Helen lies; Night and day on me she cries; And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me.
Page 11 - Kirconnell lea ; 1 lighted down my sword to draw, I hacked him in pieces sma', I hacked him in pieces sma', For her sake that died for me.