Memorials of George Bannatyne, 1545-1608

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الصفحة 16 - The morning rises (in the poet's description) as she does in the Scottish horizon. We are not carried to Greece or Italy for a shade, a stream, or a breeze. The groves rise in our own valleys ; the rivers flow 20 from our own fountains ; and the winds blow upon our own hills.
الصفحة 16 - When these good old Bards wrote, we had not yet made Use of imported Trimming upon our Cloaths, nor of foreign Embroidery in our Writings. Their Poetry is the Product of their own Country, not pilfered and spoiled in the Transportation from abroad : Their Images are native, and their Landskips domestick; copied from those Fields and Meadows we every Day behold.
الصفحة 38 - The Evergreen. Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600.
الصفحة 16 - Description) as she does in the Scottish Horizon. We are not carried to Greece or Italy for a Shade, a Stream or a Breeze. The Groves rise in our own Valleys; the Rivers flow from our own Fountains, and the Winds blow upon our own Hills. I find not Fault with those Things, as they are in Greece or Italy : But with a Northern Poet for fetching his Materials from these Places, in a Poem, of which his own Country is the Scene ; as our Hymners to the Spring and Makers of Pastorals frequently do.
الصفحة 1 - ... and when we can conceive that even so simple a circumstance as the borrowing or lending a book of ballads was accompanied with some doubt and apprehension, and that probably the suspected volume was subjected to fumigation, and the precautions practised in quarantine. As, therefore, from the contents of the work in general, we may conclude our Patron to have been both a good judge and an energetic admirer of literature, we will not, perhaps, be too fanciful in deeming him a man of calm courage...
الصفحة 60 - Interludis, levand the grave mater therof, bccaws the samyne abuse is weill reformit in Scotland, praysit be God ; quhairthrow I omittit that principall mater, and writtin only Sertane mirry Interludis thairof, verry plesand, begynning at the first part of the play.
الصفحة 34 - In this portion, however, we find ' the Buke of the Chess,' Henryson's ' Orpheus and Eurydice,' ' the Buke of the Howlat' by Holland, ' the Buke of the Sevin Sages...
الصفحة 100 - Bannatyne, and hir faid fpous, had the guidis, geir, fowmes of money and debtis, of the availl and prices eftir following, pertening to thame the tyme of hir deceis foirfaid, viz. In utenceillis, and domiceillis, and filver werk in thair duelling places in Edinr and Revelftoune, by (ie, befides) the herfchip, with the...

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