. [A composite music volume containing different issues of Thomson's octavo] collection of the songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott ...: united to the select melodies of Scotland, and of Ireland & Wales. By GEORGE THOMSON , E 0 KYBFJRGJH . P ric,. I or sis \iii,r/iKs I ;j,S liv \ T7. rT»» * 9 71 i.; â | â , , ; f ,;,,,; | . , j ,.,, (; A> U c T1MSOB Ifi IK i: II :â . r»AT STj\ I i)Ml m $&&**** TO THE PUBLIC. The Editor of this Work, in presenting tothe Public the Sixth, and probably the last,Volume of it, begs leave respectfully to offera few
. [A composite music volume containing different issues of Thomson's octavo] collection of the songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott ...: united to the select melodies of Scotland, and of Ireland & Wales. By GEORGE THOMSON , E 0 KYBFJRGJH . P ric,. I or sis \iii,r/iKs I ;j,S liv \ T7. rT»» * 9 71 i.; â | â , , ; f ,;,,,; | . , j ,.,, (; A> U c T1MSOB Ifi IK i: II :â . r»AT STj\ I i)Ml m $&&**** TO THE PUBLIC. The Editor of this Work, in presenting tothe Public the Sixth, and probably the last,Volume of it, begs leave respectfully to offera few parting words. And, first, he feels him-self entitled to say, that he has faithfully per-formed the duty which, at the outset of hislabours, he imposed on himself, not to admitinto his Work any Song inimical to the purityand delicacy of the female mind. Although it might perhaps be in the Editorspower, by much research, and the assistance ofhis poetical friends, to add another good Vo-lume to his work, yet he is very little inclin-ed to extend it beyond its present limits; andwould much rather hear the Public say that itis too short, than that it is too long. He knowshow difficult a task it would be to glean manymore Scottish Melodies of a class equal to thosecontained in his Six Volumes ;â
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