 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 256 pages
...shrill tremulous voice of Elspeth chaunting forth an old ballad in a wild and doleful recitative :— « The herring loves the merry moon-light, The mackerel loves the wind, But the oyster loves the dredging sang, For they come of a gentle kind.» A diligent collector of these legendary scraps of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 514 pages
...shrill tremulous voice of Elspeth chaunting forth an old hallad in a wild and doleful recitative :— " The herring loves the merry moon-light, The mackerel loves the wind, But the oyster loves the dredging sang, For they come of a gentle kind." A diligent collector of these legendary scraps of ancient... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 356 pages
...shrill tremulous voice of Elspeth chanting forth an old ballad in a wild and doleful recitative. " The herring loves the merry moonlight, The mackerel loves the wind, But the oyster loves the dredging sang, For they come of a gentle kind." A diligent collector of these legendary scraps of ancient... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 368 pages
...shrill tremulous voice of Elspeth chanting forth an old ballad in a wild and doleful recitative. " The herring loves the merry moonlight, The mackerel loves the wind, But the oyster loves the dredging sang. For they come of a gentle kind." A diligent collector of these legendary scraps of ancient... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 722 pages
...shrill tremulous voice of Elspeth chanting forth an old ballad in a wild and doleful recitative. " The herring loves the merry moonlight, The mackerel loves the wind, But the oyster loves the dredging sang, For they come of a gentle kind." A diligent collector of these legendary scraps of ancient... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 714 pages
...sni'ill tremulous voice of Elspeth chanting forth an old ballad in a wild and doleful recitative. " The herring loves the merry moonlight, The mackerel loves the wind, But the oyster loves the dredging sang, Гиг they come of a gentle kind." A diligent collector of these legendary scraps of... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 688 pages
...poetical notion that the oyster, among his other gentle qualities, is inclined to minstrelsy — " The Herring loves the merry moonlight, The Mackerel loves the wind, But the Oyster loves the dredging-sang, For he comes of gentle kind." The Nabob, emulous of the well-earned fame of Dr. KiTCHINEB,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 372 pages
...water-pot. The object, after all, being to cause the animal to wriggle for their amusement. THE OYSTER. The herring loves the merry moonlight, The mackerel loves the wind ; But the oyster loves the dredging-sang, For they come of a gentle kind. Scott puts the above into the mouth of Elspeth Mucklebacket... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1874 - 850 pages
...oysters may be so charmed with singing as to fall an easy prey to the dredger. And so goes an old rhyme : The herring loves the merry moonlight ; The mackerel...the dredger's song, For he comes of a gentle kind. During the whole time of dredging, a monotonous song or hum is accordingly kept up. It is stated that... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 pages
...shrill tremulous voice of Elspeth chanting forth an old ballad in a wild and doleful recitative : " — The herring loves the merry moon-light, The mackerel loves the wind, But the oyster loves the dredging sang, For they come of a gentle kind. Now baud your tongue, baith wife and carle, And listen... | |
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The herring loves the merry moonlight, The mackerel loves the wind, But the oyster loves the dredging sang, For they come of a gentle kind. 
