 | Songs, English - 1847 - 906 pages
...While joyful shouts rise from the shore. Its homeward prow to hail. We cast our lines in Largo bay, &c JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO JOHN ANDERSON, my jo, John, When...were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, John, Your bonnie brow was brent ! But DOW your head's turn'cl bald, John, Your locks are like the... | |
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...brought to my mind the well-known lines of Burns : ' John Anderson my jo, John, When we were lirst acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie...now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snow But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. 'John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the... | |
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pages
...shore, \\iil that's all the use of a guinea. JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO. Music— at ZT Purday's, 45, Uolborn. JOHN Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,...Your locks were like the raven Your bonnie brow was brcu But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snow : Yet, blessings on your frosty... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1880 - 1496 pages
...und vergleichen wir das beigefügte Original mit der Uebersetzung. Jobn Andereon, my jo John, \Vhen we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven,...locks are like the snaw; But blessings on your frosty pow, Jobn Anderson, my jo. John Anderson, my jo John, We clamb the hill thegither, And inony a canty... | |
 | W A. Williamson - 1849 - 134 pages
...glen." — The term brant, smooth, sloping, is preserved in "John Anderson," in the form brent :— "John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent...were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent." The term fellow, feal-leaguc, faith bound, is at once a term of respect and of reproach, as fellow... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1875 - 676 pages
...of newness, brightness, and freshness I have always read the word brent in the Scotch song : — " John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonny brow was brent." C. Ross. TRIAL OF HENRT WALPOLE, SJ (5th S. iii. 367.) — In answer to DR.... | |
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1849 - 906 pages
...you and me, And ilka lad and las?, John, in our footsteps to go, Makes perfect heaven here on earth, John Anderson, my jo. John Anderson, my jo, John, when we were first acquaint, Your locks were like the raven, your bonnie brow was brent, But now your head's turned bald,... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...das, male fausta mihi Fortuna, jnalorum : Sed cum qvoqve malo das bene fausta melos. John Anderson. John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, John, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is bald, John, Your locks are like the snaw ;... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1865 - 236 pages
...her name ; For where'er he distant roves, Jockey's heart is still at hame. JOHN ANDERSON. TUNE — John Anderson my Jo. JOHN ANDERSON my jo, John, When...locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither, And mony a canty... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...But minds me o' my Jean. JOHN ANDERSON MY JO. Jomr AKDERSON my jo, John, When we were first acquent j Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is held, John, Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. John... | |
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But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson, my jo. John Anderson, my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi... 
