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NOTES.
What a delightful picture of our ancient and homely hospitality
these few lines convey 1 Look at Ramsay's love song.
" For now tbat I'm young Robie's bride,
And mistress o' his fireside,
Mine ain house I'll strive to guide,
And please me wi' the triggin o't."
The bathos is enough to turn one's stomach. One naturally
gets fond of a literary research in which he has been long em-
ployed ; but I really expect that the publication of these Jacobite
relics will work a revolution in Scottish song, and that, for a
time, we shall hear them more generally sung than any other.
The airs are unequalled either in sweetness or spirit, and there
are songs in the collection suiting every species of singers. The
air to which I have set this song is not the original one, but it is
the most popular, being always sung both to this song and This
is no my ain Lassie, by Burns. For my part, I like the old
original one much better.
THE ORIGINAL AIR OF " THIS IS NO MY AIN HOUSE."
soNa XXXVIII.
%}^zwXl nebtx be f^eace till 3llamie comee Ijame,
Is another of those beautiful effusions, in which the songs of that
party so far excel any thing else of the same age. It is very like
NOTES.
What a delightful picture of our ancient and homely hospitality
these few lines convey 1 Look at Ramsay's love song.
" For now tbat I'm young Robie's bride,
And mistress o' his fireside,
Mine ain house I'll strive to guide,
And please me wi' the triggin o't."
The bathos is enough to turn one's stomach. One naturally
gets fond of a literary research in which he has been long em-
ployed ; but I really expect that the publication of these Jacobite
relics will work a revolution in Scottish song, and that, for a
time, we shall hear them more generally sung than any other.
The airs are unequalled either in sweetness or spirit, and there
are songs in the collection suiting every species of singers. The
air to which I have set this song is not the original one, but it is
the most popular, being always sung both to this song and This
is no my ain Lassie, by Burns. For my part, I like the old
original one much better.
THE ORIGINAL AIR OF " THIS IS NO MY AIN HOUSE."
soNa XXXVIII.
%}^zwXl nebtx be f^eace till 3llamie comee Ijame,
Is another of those beautiful effusions, in which the songs of that
party so far excel any thing else of the same age. It is very like
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| Description | Being the songs, airs, and legends, of the adherents to the house of Stuart. Collected and illustrated by James Hogg. Edinburgh: Printed for William Blackwood, 1819-1821. [First series] -- second series. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.194-194a |
| Description | Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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