| Electronic journals - 1896 - 1074 pages
...'96.] 301 CARLYLE'S WINDOW-PANE VERSE (8lh S. x. 237).— Little did my mother think, The day slie cradled me, What land I was to travel in, Or what death I should dee. Ob, foolish me. The above lines I copied from a pane of glass in Carlyle'e dressing-room in July... | |
| Robert Burns - 1852 - 332 pages
...old Scottish ballad,1 which, notwithstanding its rude simplicity, speaks feelingly to the heart — ' Little did my mother think, That day she cradled me,...land I was to travel in. Or what death I should die ! ' Old Scottish songs are, you know, a favourite study and pursuit of mine; and now I am on that subject,... | |
| Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1854 - 650 pages
...Scottish ballad (100), which, notwithstanding its rude simplicity, speaks feelingly to the heart : — "little did my mother think, That day she cradled...land I was to travel in, Or what death I should die ! " Old Scottish songs are, you know, a favourite study and pursuit of mine; and now I am on that subject,... | |
| James Beattie, George Gilfillan - Beattie, James, 1735-1803 - 1854 - 318 pages
...his fate. I remember a stanza in an old Scottish ballad, which speaks feelingly to the heart — ' Little did my mother think, That day she cradled me, What land I was to travel on, Or what death I should die.' " Falconer is represented as a bluff, blunt, but cheerful sailor —... | |
| William Falconer, John Mitford - 1854 - 282 pages
...Scottish ballad, which, notwithstanding its rude simplicity, speaks feelingly to the heart : — " ' Little did my mother think, That day she cradled me, What land I was to travel on, Or what death I should die ! ' " In person, Falconer was about five feet two inches in height,... | |
| James Beattie - 1854 - 332 pages
...be his fate. I remember a stanza in an old Scottish ballad, which speaks feelingly to the heart— ' Little did my mother think, That day she cradled me, What land I was to travel on, Or what death I should die.'" Falconer is represented as a bluff, blunt, but cheerful sailor—... | |
| Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...old Scottish ballad, which, notwithstanding its rude simplicity, speaks feelingly to the heart : " Little did my mother think, That day she cradled me,...land I was to travel in, Or what death I should die !"i Old Scottish song are, you know, a favourite study and pursuit of mine, and now I am on that subject,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1856 - 746 pages
...old Scottish ballad, 2 which, notwithstanding its rude simplicity, speaks feelingly to the heart: 1 Little did my mother think, That day she cradled me,...land I was to travel in, Or what death I should die !' Old Scottish songs are, you know, a favourite study and pursuit of mine; and, now I am on that subject,... | |
| Robert Burns - Scotland - 1857 - 596 pages
...Scottish ballad. wbich, notwithatanding its rude Bimplicity, apeaka feelingly to tbe beart: " Littla did my mother think. That day she cradled me, What land I waa to travel ni, Or what death I «hould die !"i Old Scottish song are, you know, a favourite atudy... | |
| John Leyden, Walter Scott - Poetry - 1858 - 456 pages
...interest when we consider how his own bones were laid at such a distance from those of his iathers.— ' ' Little did my mother think, That day she cradled me,...I was to travel in, Or what death I should die."] LORD SOULIS. THE subject of the following ballad is a popular tale of the Scottish borders. It refers... | |
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