The Roxburghe Ballads, Volume 2, Part 1Ballad society, 1883 - Ballads, English |
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... broadsides , for the greater part belonging to the troubled time between 1678 and 1689. These ten years , of immense historical importance , inferior only to the ten years before the execution of Charles the First , are illustrated with ...
... broadsides , for the greater part belonging to the troubled time between 1678 and 1689. These ten years , of immense historical importance , inferior only to the ten years before the execution of Charles the First , are illustrated with ...
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... . Thus reproducing the illustrated broadsides , which were the popular annals or newspapers of their day , the Editor might have felt tempted to include within the same " Group of Anti - Papal Ballads " the not less interesting.
... . Thus reproducing the illustrated broadsides , which were the popular annals or newspapers of their day , the Editor might have felt tempted to include within the same " Group of Anti - Papal Ballads " the not less interesting.
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... broadsides on historical subjects or political controversy , some loyal and Cavalier , others sectarian and contumacious , it is fitting that they should be given here together , for mutual advantage , and thus be preserved from risk of ...
... broadsides on historical subjects or political controversy , some loyal and Cavalier , others sectarian and contumacious , it is fitting that they should be given here together , for mutual advantage , and thus be preserved from risk of ...
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... Broadside Ballads , bought by Mr. Bright at the Sale of the Duke of Roxburghe in 1813. This collection is , it is believed , unrivalled for amplitude and curiosity . A very large proportion of these are in the black letter ; some are ...
... Broadside Ballads , bought by Mr. Bright at the Sale of the Duke of Roxburghe in 1813. This collection is , it is believed , unrivalled for amplitude and curiosity . A very large proportion of these are in the black letter ; some are ...
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... broadside , the secretly whispered lampoon , and the gay lyrics that were sung by brave fighters or fair damsels in the England of two hundred and forty years ago . - In the new volumes of Roxburghe Ballads , awaiting revival , a goodly ...
... broadside , the secretly whispered lampoon , and the gay lyrics that were sung by brave fighters or fair damsels in the England of two hundred and forty years ago . - In the new volumes of Roxburghe Ballads , awaiting revival , a goodly ...
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Common terms and phrases
Anti-Papal Bagford Ballads Bedloe begat beginning Bishop Black-letter blood body can deny Boys brave broadside Catholics Charles Church Coll Court Crown Danby death declared delight Devil diddle ditty doth Drollery Duchess Duchess of Portsmouth Duke of Monmouth Duke of York Earl England entitled fair Father fear Foes give hath heart Heaven Holy honour I'le James Jemmy Jesuits John King King's Knaves L'Estrange Lady Libera live London Lord Love Lover Murder ne'er ne'r never night Old Cause Papists Parliament Pepys poem poor Pope Pope's Popery Popish Plot Portsmouth pray Prince Printed probably Protestant Queen Religion reprinted Roger L'Estrange Rome Roxb Roxburghe Ballads Roxburghe Collection Satyr Shaftesbury sing Stafford swear tell thee they'l thing Thomas thou Titus Oates Tom D'Urfey Tory Traytors Treason true tune unto verses We'l Whigs Whilst White-letter William William Bedloe woodcut words young
Popular passages
Page 179 - His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claimed kindred there and had his claims allowed...
Page 179 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Page 244 - So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Page 244 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Page 357 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 659 - He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honor blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 658 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit...
Page 587 - Jotham of piercing wit, and pregnant thought; Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies...
Page 443 - AH, how sweet it is to love ! Ah, how gay is young desire ! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach love's fire ! Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. Sighs, which are from lovers blown, Do but gently heave the heart : Even the tears they shed alone, Cure, like trickling balm, their smart.
Page 148 - Michael blew his trump, and stilled the noise With one still greater, as is yet the mode On earth besides; except some grumbling voice, Which now and then will make a slight inroad Upon decorous silence, few will twice Lift up their lungs when fairly overcrowed; And now the bard could plead his own bad cause, With all the attitudes of self-applause.