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Focusing your research efforts: The problem : the heart of the research process ;
Review of the related literature ; Planning your research report ; Writing the research
proposal
Suitable as the core text in any introductory research course or even for self-
instruction, this text will show students two things: 1) that quality research demands
planning and design; and, 2) how their own research projects can be executed
Herrick had no occasion to steal, yet there is little doubt but that his
Cherry Ripe was adapted from Allison’s earlier, and prettier poem,
There is a Garden in her Face; whilst the following lines (which occur
in his poem upon Mistress Susanna Southwell,)
Her pretty feet
Like snails did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they playéd at bo-peep,
Did soon draw in again.
were stolen (and spoilt in the stealing), from Sir John Suckling’s
inimitable Ballad upon a Wedding:
Her feet beneath her petticoat,
Like little mice, stole in and out,
As if they feared the light:
But oh! she dances such a way!
No sun upon an Easter-day
Is half so fine a sight.
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY.
(Born in Bath, 1797. Died at Cheltenham, April 22, 1839.)
songs of this prolific writer, which but sixty
years ago were exceedingly popular, are now
nearly forgotten, A few old-fashioned people
may be heard to warble “She wore a wreath of
Roses,” or “I’d be a butterfly,” whilst
“Perfection,” perhaps the best known of Bayly’s
dramatic pieces, is still occasionally played to
afford some graceful actress an opportunity of
displaying her varied attainments. The author of
“Perfection” had to contend with many
difficulties before he could get his piece performed. It was rejected at
Covent Garden Theatre and several other houses, but was finally accepted
at Drury Lane. With Madame Vestris, as Kate O’Brien, it achieved a great
success, but several of Bayly’s other dramatic productions were less
fortunate, and he had nothing to depend upon but the precarious income of
a journalist for his support. His songs, though exceedingly popular, brought
him small pecuniary returns during his lifetime, but after his death his
widow derived a small sum from the sale of his collected works. Although
but a poor and struggling author, it suited the editor of Fraser’s Magazine to
sneer at this amiable and harmless versifier, and in volume iv. of that
magazine these lines will be found in the Lay of the Twaddle School:—
“Satins and silks I sang gravely and gaily,
And the bard of the boudoir was Thomas Haynes Bayly;
With my butterflies, buttercups, butter-flowers daily,
I buttered my bread,—heigh, for Thomas Haynes Bayly.
With my songs and my sonnets, the girls I wooed frailly,
Tom Moore, the chaste model of Thomas Haynes Bayly;
Apollo,—though radiant his rays,—shines but palely,
When the eyes of the fair shine on Thomas Haynes Bayly.
With miniature Lyrics, the muse did I waylay,
And a miniature picture of Thomas Haynes Bayly;
I sang about Bath, till I bothered them really,
And eclipsed was Kit Anstey by Thomas Haynes Bayly;
Herrick, Waller, Burns, Byron, Moore, Morris and Shelley,
Were poor sing-song strummers to Thomas Haynes Bayly.”
But these songs, which sixty years ago every one was singing, are now so
seldom heard, that some of the parodies would be quite unintelligible unless
accompanied by the originals.
SHE WORE A WREATH OF ROSES.
She wore a wreath of roses that night when first we met,
Her lovely face was smiling beneath her curls of jet;
Her footsteps had the lightness, her voice the joyous tone,
The tokens of a youthful heart where sorrow is unknown.
I saw her but a moment, yet methinks I see her now,
With a wreath of summer flowers upon her snowy brow.
And once again I saw that brow, no bridal wreath was there,
The widow’s sombre cap concealed her once luxuriant hair;
She weeps in silent solitude, for there is no one near,
To press her hand within his own, and wipe away the tear!
I see her broken-hearted, and methinks I see her now,
In the pride of youth and beauty, with a wreath upon her brow.
T H B .
T B ’ F .
He wore a brace of pistols the night that first we met,
His deep-lined brow was frowning beneath his wig of jet;
His footsteps had the moodiness, his voice the hollow tone,
Of a bandit-chief who feels remorse and tears his hair alone.
I saw him but at half-price, yet methinks I see him now,
In the tableau of the last act with the blood upon his brow.
And once again I saw him, but this time it was not here;
In coat of questionable age he traversed Boulogne Pier!
He stept in shabby solitude, for, on one fated day
The bubble of his Line had burst, and he had run away.
I saw him quite down-hearted, with his paletot all but rags,
As he underwent the fate of all Provisionary Stags.
A S .
H W G W S .
He wore grey worsted stockings the term when first we met,
His trousers had no straps, his highlows had no jet;
His look it had the greenness, his voice the sleepy tone,
The tokens of a raw young man who’d lately left his home.
I saw him but a moment, yet methinks I see him now,
With his cap the wrong end foremost upon his freshman’s brow.