A weary slave frae sun to sun, Could I the rich reward secure, The lovely Mary Morison. Yestreen when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro... Addison to Blake - Page 512edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 638 pages
...to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise. JOHN SERVICE. MARY MORISON. TUNE— ' Bide ye yet.* 0 Mary, at thy window be, It is the wished,...trembling string The -dance gaed thro' the lighted ha't To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw ; Tho' this was fair, and that... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 pages
...and glances let me see, That make the miser's treasure poor; How blithely wad I bide the stoure 1 , A weary slave frae sun to sun ; Could I the rich reward...and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, l sigh'd, and said amang them a', ' Ye are na Mary Morison.' O Mary, canst thou wreck his peace, Wha... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...smiles and glances let me sec That make the miser's treasure poor : How blithely wad I bide the stoure, he porch has wov'n its wavy through the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, — I sat, but neither heard nor saw : Though... | |
| Robert Burns - 1881 - 582 pages
...smiles and glances let me see That make the miser's treasure poor : How blithely wad I bide the stoure, A weary slave frae sun to sun ; Could I the rich reward...Yestreen, when to the trembling string, The dance gaed through the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing — I sat, but neither heard nor saw : Though... | |
| Robert Burns - 1881 - 326 pages
...and glances let me see. That makes the miser's treasure poor : How blithely wad I bide the stoure, A weary slave frae sun to sun, Could I the rich reward...Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed through the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing— I sat, but neither heard now saw. Though... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 538 pages
...sentiment, refmed and exquisite in their homeliness, as if they had been the wooings of a prince — " Yestreen, when, to the trembling string, The dance...sigh'd, and said amang them a', Ye are na Mary Morison." Could there be a more delicate expression of that supremacy of one, which is too penetrating, too ethereal,... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 380 pages
...sentiment with the known history of his passion for Ellison Begbie, and its disappointing issue : — " Yestreen when, to the trembling string, The dance...took its wing — I sat, but neither heard nor saw," Sue. The " lighted ha' " here, of course, means the country dancing school with its sanded floor, and... | |
| 1882 - 780 pages
...the trembling string, The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha'. To thee my fancy took Its wing, I eat, but neither heard nor saw : Tho' this was fair, and...that was braw. And yon the toast of a' the town, I filgh'd, and said among them a', ' I" e are na Mary Morison.' " Oh, Mary, canst thou wreck his peace,... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 380 pages
...passion for Ellison Begb1e, and its disappointing issue : — • " Yestreen when, to the trembliug string, The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee...took its wing — I sat, but neither heard nor saw," &c. The "lighted ha'" here, of course, means the country dancing school with ita sanded floor, and... | |
| 1883 - 778 pages
...the old ballads, which, as Hazlitt says, " take the deepest and I most lasting hold on the mind." " Yestreen, when to the trembling string. The dance...and said amang them a', ' Ye are na Mary Morison.' " " Oh, Mary, canst them wreck his peace, Wha for thy sake wad gladly die; Or canst them break that... | |
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