 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, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks,...  The Human Mind: a Discourse on Its Acquirements and History - Page 274by Stephen Watson Fullom - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Burns Club of the City of New York - 1860 - 164 pages
...Lang Syne." We trace our hero to the early intellectual guidance of an old woman, of whom he says, " She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs, concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1861 - 236 pages
...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, fairies, brownies, witchies, warlocks, spunkies, kelpirs, elf-candles,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 368 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, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 358 pages
...years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant arid 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1864 - 380 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, credulity, and superstition. She had. I suppose, the largest collection... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1866 - 356 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, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection... | |
 | Samuel M. Kennedy - 1867 - 530 pages
...first should be my Anna." In his letter to Moore, Burns says, " In my infant, and boyish days too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family. She had the largest collection in the country of tales and songs. These cultivated the latent seeds of poetry."... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 pages
...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, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles,... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 304 pages
...superstitious old woman, who lived in their family, furnished him another school of poetry. He says : " She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles,... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1869 - 624 pages
...years of ago, 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, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection... | |
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