 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 - 1880 - 1024 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... | |
 | William Anderson - 1877 - 832 pages
...plentifully stored with stories of the marvellous. "She had, I suppose," says Burns, writing in 1787, " the largest collection in the country of tales and...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, Wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds... | |
 | John Ross - 1878 - 786 pages
...element in his education may be best told in his own words : — " 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... | |
 | John Ross - 1878 - 816 pages
...element in his education may be best told in his own words:—" 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1879 - 220 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,...devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spnukies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants, enchanted towers,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - 628 pages
...of age, I was a critic in substantives, verba, and particles. In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family,...songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witehes, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, deadlights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pages
...of age, I wasa criticin substantives, verbs, and participles. 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... | |
 | 1880 - 814 pages
...of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In iny infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family,...devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spuukies, kelpies, elf caudles, dead- lights, wxaiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants, enchanted towers,... | |
 | 1880 - 832 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,...songs, concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witehes, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf candles, deadlights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants,... | |
 | 1880 - 812 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,...remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition, fihe had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and ,sonfs, concerning devils,... | |
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