 Barbara : She was in love, and he she loved proved mad And did forsake her : she had a song of ' willow ; ' An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 371828Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1847 - 506 pages
...affecting manner, " My mother had a maid call'd Barbara : She was in love ; and he she lov'd prov'd mad, And did forsake her. She had a song of — Willow....thing t'was, but it express'd her fortune; And she dyed singing it." — Ed. 1793, vol. xv., p. 613. This is given from a black-letter copy in the Pepys... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...proved mad, 9 And did forsake her. She had a song of—willow; An old thing 'twas, but it expressed her fortune, And she died singing it. That song, to-night, Will not go from my mind; I have much to do, 3 But to go hang my head all at one side, And sing it like poor Barbara. 'Pr'ythee,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1849 - 502 pages
...Desdemona:— " My mother had a maid called Barbara ; She was in love ; and he she loved proved mnd, And did forsake her; she had a song of willow, An...it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it." I hope, however, that a better lot is in reserve for Phoebe Wilkins, and that she may yet " rule the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...which subdue her soul, move tranquilly in an atmosphere of poetical beauty, thinking of the maid that " had a song of — willow ; An old thing 'twas, but...it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it." It is a rude conception which Johnson has of Shakspere's art, when he says of the play of 'Hamlet,'... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 510 pages
...pathetic little picture drawn by Desdemona : — " My mother had a maid called Barbara ; She was in love ; and he she loved proved mad, And did forsake her ;...it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it." I hope, however, that a better lot is in reserve for Phoebe Wilkins, and that she may yet " rule the... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1851 - 524 pages
...little picture drawn by Desdemona: — , " My mother had a maid called Barbara ; She was in love ; and he she loved proved mad, And did forsake her ;...it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it." I hope, however, that a better lot is in reserve for Phosba "VVilkins, and that she may yet " rule... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...pr'ythee, more. AT ii. 5. My mother had a maid call'd Barbara ; She was in love ; and he she lov'd prov'd mad, And did forsake her : she had a song of Willow,...it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it. O. iv. 3. She bids you Upon the wanton rushes lay you down, And rest your gentle head upon her lap,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 pages
...sheets. Emil. Come, come, you talk. Des. My mother had a maid called — Barbara; She was in love ; and he she loved, proved mad, And did forsake her....had a song of — willow; An old thing 'twas, but it expressed her fortune, And she died singing it. That song, to-night, Will not go from my mind; I have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 602 pages
...talk. Des. My mother had a maid called — Barbara ; She was in love ; and he she loved, proved mad,2 And did forsake her. She had a song of — willow ; An old thing 'twas, but it expressed her fortune, And she died singing it. That song, to-night, Will not go from my mind; I have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 pages
...talk. Des. My mother had a maid called— Barbara ; She was in love ; and he she loved, proved mad,2 And did forsake her. She had a song of— willow ; An old thing 'twas, but it expressed her fortune, And she died singing it. That song, to-night, Will not go from my mind ; I have... | |
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