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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,... "
The British Prose Writers... - Page 57
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: Including Several Pieces Not Inserted in ...

Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...infant and boyish days, too, I owed nrich to UL old woman vho resided in the family, remarkable foi her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had,...the largest collection in the country, of tales and tongs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf- candles,...
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The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays ...

John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...all the education they ever had." Eobert was then in his ninth year, and had owed much, he tells us, to " an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants and enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds...
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Essays critical and imaginative

John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...all the education they ever had." Eobert was then in his ninth year, and had owed much, he tells us, to " an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants and enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds...
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The works of professor Wilson, ed. by prof. Ferrier, Volume 7

John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...all the education they ever had." Robert was then in his ninth year, and had owed much, he tells us, to " an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable...the largest collection in the country of tales and Bongs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles,...
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Lectures on the British Poets, Volume 1

Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...the same humble roof, remarkable, he says, for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition, and having the largest collection in the country of tales and...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. " The household life of Burns's parents...
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The human mind, a discourse on its acquirements and history, Volume 2

Stephen Watson Fullom - 1858 - 334 pages
...Orpheus of Scottish song. He himself tells us, ' I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs.'4 But, in a scholastic sense, Burns was not, as is generally supposed, uneducated. Scotland...
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Life of Robert Burns

Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 216 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...
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On Hallucinations: A History and Explanation of Apparitions, Visions, Dreams ...

Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont - 1859 - 476 pages
...I shall content myself with quoting the example of the poet Robert Burns. " I owed much," he says " to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds...
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The poetical works and letters of Robert Burns

Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 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,...and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest colleetion in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches,...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: Including Several Pieces Not Inserted in ...

Robert Burns - 1859 - 530 pages
...resided in the family, remarkable fot her ignorance, credtility, and superstition. She had, I supu pose, the largest collection in the country, of tales and...fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf- candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other...
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