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Page 207
... chorus , in which all the characters join , goes to the tune of an English drinking song , Jolly Mortals , Fill Your Glasses ' . There are , in fact , two eighteenth - century English tunes with this title , but it seems clear from the ...
... chorus , in which all the characters join , goes to the tune of an English drinking song , Jolly Mortals , Fill Your Glasses ' . There are , in fact , two eighteenth - century English tunes with this title , but it seems clear from the ...
Page 289
... chorus would in some degree spoil the effect ; & shall certainly have none in my projected song to it . It is not , however , a case in point with Rothemurche : there , as in ' Roy's wife of Aldivaloch ' , a chorus , to my taste , goes ...
... chorus would in some degree spoil the effect ; & shall certainly have none in my projected song to it . It is not , however , a case in point with Rothemurche : there , as in ' Roy's wife of Aldivaloch ' , a chorus , to my taste , goes ...
Page 297
... chorus , there is little of the folk element in Burns's version , which consists of a rather formal description of the scenery and works up to the kind of climax we have noted in many of his poems : Let Fortune's gifts at random flee ...
... chorus , there is little of the folk element in Burns's version , which consists of a rather formal description of the scenery and works up to the kind of climax we have noted in many of his poems : Let Fortune's gifts at random flee ...
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