 | 1714 - 430 sayfa
...Jemmy die ? And why do I live to fay waes me i 'My father' argued fair, tho' my mother didna fpeak, She looked in my face till my heart was like to break; So they gi'ed him my hand, tho' my heart was- in the fea, And auld Robin Grey is gudeman to me. I had... | |
 | Roundelay - 1815 - 260 sayfa
...didna Jenny die? And why do I live to say, waes me ? Auld Robin argued sair, though my milher didua speak, She looked in my face till my heart was like to break, SP they gied him my hand, tho* my heart was at I hadna beeo a wife weeks but only four, When sitting... | |
 | 1829 - 1008 sayfa
...sea, And Auld Robin Gray came courtin' to me. " My faither urged me sair, my mitber didna speak, But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break...hand, though my heart was at the sea, And Auld Robin Cray is gudeman to me." Here there is not a word that is unusual either in itself or in the application... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 sayfa
...what leisure for grief and despair! " My father pressed me sair, Though my mother did ua' speak ; But* she looked in my face Till my heart was like to break." The irksomeness of the situations, the sense of painful dependence, is excessive ; and yet the sentiment... | |
 | Nice distinctions - 1820 - 354 sayfa
...I may say, in the words of a melody of the country of bards, * * * * My mother did not speak, . But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break ; So I gave him my hand, * * • * But here terminates the analogy between the love-lorn Jenny and me ; for... | |
 | 1822 - 962 sayfa
...description I ever read. The couplet, too, " My father pressed me sair — my mither didna speak, " But she looked in my face, till my heart was like to break." shews the truest knowledge of the human heart, and of womanly feeling. And the music in which this... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1823 - 586 sayfa
...genuine poetical beauty and pathos. My father urg'd me sair, my mither di' ни ' speak, But she look'd in my face till my heart was like to break; So I gave him my hand, tho' my heart was far at sea ; But Auld Uobin Gray is a guid manto me. Your"s,&c.... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 sayfa
...why do I live to say Wae is me ? My father urged me sair; though my mither didna speak, She look'd in my face till my heart was like to break ; So I gied him my hand, though my heart was in I hadna been a wife a week but only four, When sitting sae mournfully at my ain door, I saw my Jamie's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 sayfa
...Jamie die, Or why am 1 spared to cry wae is me ? My father urged me sair — my mither didna speak, But They gied him my hand — my heart was in the sea — Aud so Kobiu Gray lie wus guiduian to me. I hadna... | |
 | Henry Neele - 1830 - 586 sayfa
...only on account of these two lines : — " My Father argued sair, though my Mither iliilna speak, But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break." There is also in " Lady Ann Bothvcelfs Lament," a touch of unaffected nature and pathos of the same... | |
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My father urged me sair: my mother didna speak; But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break... 
