Robert Burns |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 77
Page 283
... song on Burns's list is ' White Cockade ' , which duly appears in the third volume of the Museum . If the Museum text ( among those described as ' Mr. Burns's old words ' ) be put beside an older version of this song ( for example , the ...
... song on Burns's list is ' White Cockade ' , which duly appears in the third volume of the Museum . If the Museum text ( among those described as ' Mr. Burns's old words ' ) be put beside an older version of this song ( for example , the ...
Page 294
... songs and projecting more work on them . This is surely the final proof that Johnson and Thomson were catalysts who released in Burns an enormous creative and critical energy in the field of song writing , an energy unparalleled in ...
... songs and projecting more work on them . This is surely the final proof that Johnson and Thomson were catalysts who released in Burns an enormous creative and critical energy in the field of song writing , an energy unparalleled in ...
Page 298
... songs in this way , discussing their idiom , their relation to older songs , the tunes to which they are set , and their quality as song - poems . But such a procedure would demand a substantial volume of its own . All that can be done ...
... songs in this way , discussing their idiom , their relation to older songs , the tunes to which they are set , and their quality as song - poems . But such a procedure would demand a substantial volume of its own . All that can be done ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Allan Ramsay auld lang syne ballad Bard Beggars bonie Burns's songs century chorus collection Commonplace Book critical dear death drinking Edinburgh edition effect eighteenth-century Ellisland emotion English Epistle farm farmer feeling Fergusson frae friends Gavin Hamilton genteel Gilbert Green Grow Grow the Rashes heart Highland Holy Fair Hugh Blair interest Jacobite James Jean John Kilmarnock volume kind Kirk lasses letter lines literature lively Mary Mauchline melody mood moral Mossgiel moves Murdoch Muse Museum native ne'er neoclassic never night o'er owre patriotic poem poet poetic poetry poor pride printed Ramsay Ramsay's remarkable rhyme Robert Burns rustic satire Scotch Scotland Scots Scots Musical Museum Scottish literature sentimental Shanter sing social stanza sung Tarbolton thee theme Thomson thou thro tion turn Watson William Burnes words writing written wrote