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" In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts,... "
Letters - Page 55
by Robert Burns - 1819
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The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a ..., Volume 1

Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...age, I was a critic in substantives, " verbs, and particles. In my infant and boyish " days too, I owed much to an old woman who " resided in the family, remarkable for her igno" ranee, credulity, and superstition. She had, " I suppose, the largest collection in the country...
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The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a ..., Volume 1

Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs and particles. In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family,...fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf" candles, .— ». * Idiot for idiotic. candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips,...
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The Works of Robert Burns: Life of Robert Burns, criticism on his writings ...

Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs and particles. In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, ere-- dulity and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and...
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Letters to John Aikin, M. D.: On His Volume of Vocal Poetry: and on His ...

James Plumptre - 1811 - 486 pages
...his life, there is a very curious passage to this e Sect : " In my infant and lioj ish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family,...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons and other trumpery. This cultivated the Intent seeds of...
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The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life , and a ..., Volume 1

Robert Burns - 1813 - 422 pages
...of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family,...witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elfcandles, * Idiot for idiotic. candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers,...
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The poetical works of Robert Burns

Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...Scholar. In my boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided hi the family, remarkabte for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She...devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkeys, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted lowers,...
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The prose works of Robert Burns

Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...years of age, I was a critic iu substantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and boyish days too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family,...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, inchantcd towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds...
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The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life ..., Issue 670, Volume 1

Robert Burns - 1816 - 342 pages
...of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In ray infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family,...devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkics, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers,...
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The Biographical Magazine, Volume 1

1819 - 404 pages
...he shewed any attachment to poetry, notwithstanding his acquaintance with an anticnt heldam, who had the largest collection in the country of tales and songs, concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, witches, Au-. In his seventeenth year, he went to a country dancing-school, though much in opposition...
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The Biographical Magazine: Containing Portraits of Eminent and ..., Volume 1

1819 - 196 pages
...he shewed any attachment to poetry, notwithstanding his acquaintance with an antient beldam, who had the largest collection in the country of tales and songs, concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, witches, &c. In his seventeenth year, he went to a country dancing-school, though much in opposition...
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