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The Tea-table Miscellany: A Collection of Choice Songs, Scots and English - Page 244
by Allan Ramsay - 1788 - 448 pages
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The Tea-table Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Scots Sangs. In Three Volumes ...

Allan Ramsay - 1733 - 398 pages
...A damfel lay deploring. All on a rock reclin'd. Wide o'er the roaring billows, She caft a wifliful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows, That trembled...didft thou ventrous lover, Why didft thou truft the leas? Ceafe, ceafe then, cruel ocean, And let my lover reft : Ah ! what's thy troubled motion, Views...
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The Weekly amusement: or, The universal magazine, Volume 1

1735 - 390 pages
...on a rock reclin'd ; Wide o'er the roaring billows She cart a wiihful look ; Her head was crovvn'd with willows, That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve...then, cruel ocean. And let my lover reft : Ah ! what's thy troubled motion To that within my breafl ?. The merehant, robb'd of trealure, Views tempeffs in...
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The Tea-table Miscellany: A Collection of Choice Songs, Scots and ..., Issue 420

Allan Ramsay - 1762 - 506 pages
...wind, A damfel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd. Wide o'er the roaring billows, She caft awifhfol look ; Her head was crown'd with willows, That trembled o'er the brook. . ,' • •; i • * - * * i. Twelve months were gone and over, > And nine long tedious days ; Why...
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The Works of Mr. John Gay: In Four Volumes. To which is Added an Account of ...

John Gay - English poetry - 1770 - 216 pages
...wijlful look ; Her head was crown' d with wi/lows That tremble a'er the brook. II. 'Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long tedious days. Why didft thou, vent'rous lover, Why didji thou truft the feas ? Ctafe, ceafe, thou cruel ocean, And let my lover reft : Ah ! what's thy...
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Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most ...

John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1774 - 316 pages
...wifhful look, Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve Twelve months are gone and over And nine long tedious days ; Why didft...lover, Why didft thou truft the feas ? Ceafe, ceafe, thou cruel ocean And let a lover reft ; Ah ! what's thy troubled motion To that within my breaft ?...
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Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most ...

John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1774 - 328 pages
...wind, A damfel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd: Wide o'er the foaming billows She caft j. wifhful look, Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. Why ring the woods with warbling throats ? Ye larks, ye linnets, ceafe your ftrains ; I faintly hear...
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The Works of the English Poets: Gay

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 372 pages
...; A damfel lay deploring. All on a rock reclin'd. Wide o'er the foaming billows She caft a wiftful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows, That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long tedious days. Why didft thou, venturous lover, Why didft thou truft...
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St Cecilia: Or, the British Songster. A New and Select Collection of the ...

Ballads, English - 1782 - 348 pages
...reclin'd ; Wide o'er the foaming billows, She caft a wifhful look ; Her head was crown'd with willow» That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months were gone...vent'rous lover, Why didft thou truft the feas ? Ceafe, ceaife, thou troubled ocean, And let my lover reft ; Ab ! what's thy troubled motion To that within...
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Preface. A historical essay on the origin and progress of national song ...

Ballads, English - 1783 - 366 pages
...a wiftful look ; Her head was crown'd with willow* That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long tedious days. Why didft...lover, Why didft thou truft the feas ? Ceafe, ceafe thou cruel ocean, And let my lover reft : Ah ! what's thy troubled motion To that within my breaft...
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Airs to the songs

Ballads, English - 1783 - 356 pages
...lay deploring, All on a rock ref clin'd. Wkle o'tr the foaming billows She f-» »• eaft a wiftful look, Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled' o'er the brook. Twelve months are gone and o-ver, And nine long tedious days, Why didil thout vent'— rout lover, Why didft thou...
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