 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,...  The British Prose Writers... - Page 571819Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 206 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,...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 360 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,...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 368 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,...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 420 pages
...observes to Doctor Moore, " I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family (Jenny Wilson by name), remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition....kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...had a great share in making our ploughman a poet. " She had," he tells us in his brief autobiography, "the largest collection in the country of tales and...ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kedyers, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, ap* There ¡aa dash of merry raftliHgaojnfntss in the old... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 pages
...In my infant and hoyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkahle for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She...tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, hrownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candies, deadlights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips,... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 pages
...in suh•tannve», verb«, and pvtiáplea. la my infant and boyish days, too, I owed ranch to an oU woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her...songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witchea, warlock«, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead -lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants,... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 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,...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 pages
...observes to Doctor Moore, "'I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family (Jenny Wilson by name), iith verse and the chonu, in the Poet's handwriting,...nid, noddin, We're a' noddin /ou at e'en. See Letter cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. ТЙ cultivated the latent seeds... | |
 | 1841 - 832 pages
...knowledge of Burns among the London circles of rank and literature. "In my infant and boyish days, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family,...witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery.... | |
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