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Page 289
... 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 well enough . - As to the chorus going ...
... 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 well enough . - As to the chorus going ...
Page 296
... effect of awkward imitation of the antique , but in this poem ( as in many of Burns's songs where he ends the line with monosyllables such as ' O ' ) there is nothing of the synthetic folk element that we get in many of the nineteenth ...
... effect of awkward imitation of the antique , but in this poem ( as in many of Burns's songs where he ends the line with monosyllables such as ' O ' ) there is nothing of the synthetic folk element that we get in many of the nineteenth ...
Page 302
... effect even less on the music is " Thou Ling'ring Star with Less'ning Ray ' , sometimes entitled " To Mary in Heaven ' and in the Scots Musical Museum ( volume three ) entitled ' My Mary , Dear Departed Shade ' . This poem is written ...
... effect even less on the music is " Thou Ling'ring Star with Less'ning Ray ' , sometimes entitled " To Mary in Heaven ' and in the Scots Musical Museum ( volume three ) entitled ' My Mary , Dear Departed Shade ' . This poem is written ...
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