I know all about it, my minstrel boy!

Bing Crosby's minstrel song folio.

Minstrel makings.

And such he was through all the world by minstrel harps extolled, Both for the vigor of his arm and for his bearing bold.

AN ODE TO SPRING (TO GRANT AND NELLIE ALLEN) Is it the Spring? Or are the birds all wrong That play on flute and viol, A thousand strong, In minstrel galleries Of the long deep wood, Epiphanies Of bloom and bud. Grave minstrels those, Of deep responsive chant; But see how yonder goes, Dew-drunk, with giddy slant, Yon Shelley-lark, And hark!

She is not faultless in her method, but she differs from other great American prime donne in the important particular of possessing voice enough to fill an auditorium larger than the average minstrel hall.

For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim,

Volumed and fast, and rolling far, The cloud enveloped Scotland's war, As down the hill they broke; Nor mortal shout, nor minstrel tone, Announced their march; their tread alone Told England, from his mountain-throne King James did rushing come.

Yes,and thy minstrel art the while, Can blend the tones of weal and we, So archly, that the heart may smile, Though bright, unbidden tear-drops flow.

He was probably a contemporary of the English minstrel king, Richard the Lion-hearted.

"Dixie" at once became very popular, and was soon on the program of every minstrel troupe in the country.

The old, sorrowful, tender-hearted minstrel knight, who wandered from castle to castle in Hainault and Picardy seven hundred years ago, is one of the master-singers of the world.

Baker's minstrel joke book.

A raree-show is here, With children gathered round; another street 175 Presents a company of dancing dogs, Or dromedary, with an antic pair Of monkeys on his back; a minstrel band Of Savoyards; or, single and alone, An English ballad-singer.

Baker's minstrel budget.

The minstrel encyclopedia.

It was the sort of costume affected by interlocutors of minstrel shows; it had a minstrel trigness about it.

Almoralife, brave and wise, Full many a minstrel sings, A knight who in Granada Was counted with its kings.

But, wanderer, how didst win thy way From caverns of the sea? Did not thy sisters say thee nay, Sweet harbinger of glee? With his far-darting flame, The Day-king came, And bore me away in a cloudy frame; And I sailed in the air, Till the zephyrs bare Me hither to hear thy minstrel-prayer.

Her labour past, another breast, Still lovely woman's, urged his pen Pure love was sent to make him blest, And bid his fancies flow again: She yielded to his minstrel pride The heart, the hand to lips denied!

Walking to the door, he sang in capital minstrel style: "When de preacher took his text He looked so berry much perplext, Fer nothin' come acrost his mine But Dandy Jim from Caroline!

In each successive tome that bears my name Hast thou, though veiled thy own from public eyes, Won from my muse that willing sacrifice Which worth and talents such as thine should claim: And I should close my minstrel task with shame, Could I forget the indissoluble ties Which every grateful thought of thee supplies To one who deems thy friendship more than fame.

But the story of your hallow'd death shall not remain unsung, Oh, its record shall be glorified by many a minstrel tongue For Freedom's holy light hath touch'd each ruin'd shrine and wall, That sadly speak unto the heart of Zaragoza's fall.

It was the sort of costume affected by interlocutors of minstrel shows; it had a minstrel trigness about it.

And, children, now rejoice, Nowfor the holidays of life are few; Nor let the rustic minstrel tune, in vain, The crack'd church-viol, resonant to-day, Of mirth, though humble!