The reciter evidently could remember only this point in the stanza.
D# belongs with #C#: it was given by the reciter as a colloquy between the devil and a maiden.
The reciter of this ballad gave the editor to understand that if the robber had succeeded in his twelfth murder, he would have attained such powers that nobody after that could harm him.
I Communicated by Mr David Louden, as recited by Mrs Dodds, Morham, Haddington, thereciter being above seventy in 1873.
The stanza in #A# which should give the number is lost, but the reciter or singer put it at seven or nine.
Neither of these is mentioned in #A#, the reciter of which was an Aberdeen woman.
From the amazing variations which occur in different copies of the old pieces, it is evident they made no scruple to alter each other's productions; and the reciter added or omitted whole stanzas according to his own fancy or convenience.
The Negro is quick to seize a parable, and the point of a cunningly constructed story directed at an individual obnoxious to the reciter would not miss.
The reciter imitates lowing here, the voice falling to a deep prolonged note on the last word.
During the recitation of the story the Rakshasi maid-servant grew pale, as she perceived that her real character was discovered; and Sahasra Dal was astonished at the knowledge of the reciter regarding the history of his own life.
We can only suppose that the lyre in the hands of the epic poet or reciter was in reality a piece of convention, a "survival" from the stage in which narrative poetry had a lyrical character.
The reciterthrew into the recitation all the powers of his soul and gave vent to the sentiment.
So also they would gather in their huts and listen to the best reciter of tales.
They went to the lake-side, and the reciter called upon the crocodile, which at once arose from the water holding the page.
She looked like the descendant of a long line of ancestry or something and she spoke as good as any reciter you ever heard in a hall.
Wilfred was a good reciter and held the ladies with his voice and his melting blue eyes with the long lashes, and Henrietta was envied for having nailed him.
That Reciter who is not endued with wisdom and who is foolish, becomes stupefied or deluded; and in consequence of such delusion has to go to hell where he is obliged to indulge in regrets.
The manner in which the acts of the Reciter observing the vow of Brahmacharya may cease, I will presently declare.
When the word Reciter is uttered, what shall I understand by it?
Reciter may attain to the joys of heaven, but compared to Emancipation, they are hell, there being the obligation of rebirth attached to them.
That Reciter who does not at first conduct himself according to the method that has been laid down, and who cannot complete the ritual or course of discipline laid down, has to go to hell.
That Reciter who betakes himself to recitation under the influence of attachments (to earthly objects such as wealth, wives etc.
That Reciterwhose heart becomes set upon the attributes that go by the name of divinity, has to incur hell and never becomes freed from it.
A Reciter of Gayatri goes to the supreme god Brahman, or repairs to Agni or enters the region of Surya.
That Reciter who goes on without faith, who is not contented with his work, and who takes no pleasure in it, goes to hell, without doubt.
That Reciter who insults and disregards others has to go to hell.
That Reciter of wicked understanding and uncleansed soul who sets himself to his work with an unstable mind, obtains an unstable end or goes into hell.
That Reciter who becomes identified with his Soul (by withdrawing everything into it) goes thither.
Even as a professional reciter Ion admits the necessity of the power of working on men.
Coming from Ephesus, Ion claimed to be the best professionalreciter of Homer in all Greece.
A more or less appropriate stanza from another ballad would slip in; or the reciter would tell in prose the matter of which he forgot the versified form.
Mrs. Brown, a famous reciterand collector of the eighteenth century; and the Abbotsford MSS.
Many of the old words are retained, which neither the reciter nor the copyer understood.
The reciter of a sutta simply adopts the style of a village story-teller.
Only professional priests could perform it and as a rule a priest did not attempt to master more than one branch and to be for instance either a reciter (Hotri) or singer (Udgâtri).
Spendin the queen's meat an her fee' was said by the reciter to belong to the ballad, though the connection was not remembered.
There are appended to this version two stanzas of which Burton says: The reciter of this ballad is obstinate in persisting that the last two stanzas belong to it.
Motherwell says that the reciter learned the ballad from her grandmother.
A second copy of #A# was made for William Tytler under the direction of the reciter in 1783, but has not been recovered.
I have never heard it with any considerable variation, save that one recitercalled the dwelling of the feigned sweetheart Castle-swa.
The recitercannot be a player, for that is a different art; but he must be a messenger, and he should be as interesting, as exciting, as are all that carry great news.
The reciter must be made exciting and wonderful in himself, apart from what he has to tell, and that is more difficult than it was in the middle ages.
FN#195] I again omit "Saith the Reciter of this marvellous relation," a formula which occurs with unpleasant reiteration.
The "prelude" might be addressed to the presiding god of the festival, or to any local deity whom the reciter wished to honour.
The Amateur Reciter should find little difficulty here in suggesting something of the intonation of a frightened goose: Pause--then continue apologetically.
More often the idea underlying it is that the recitation of certain formulæ acquires merit for the reciter who can then divert this merit to any purpose[892].
This latter, known as Bana, is usually accompanied by a word for word translation made by the reciteror an assistant.
Reciter Number Two (giving his own private version of "The Ticket of Leave Man.
But surely if every poet and reciter could thrust any new lines which he chose to make into any old lays which he happened to know, that was interpolation, whether he had a book of the words or had none.
