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 - 1800 - 424 pages
...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 igno" ranee, credulity, and superstition. She had, " I suppose, the largest collection in the country... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 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,...fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf" candles, .— ». * Idiot for idiotic. candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 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, ere-- dulity and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and... | |
| James Plumptre - 1811 - 486 pages
...his life, there is a very curious passage to this e Sect : " In my infant and lioj ish 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 Intent seeds of... | |
| Robert Burns - 1813 - 422 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,...witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elfcandles, * Idiot for idiotic. candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...Scholar. In my boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided hi the family, remarkabte for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She...devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkeys, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted lowers,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...years of age, I was a critic iu 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, inchantcd towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds... | |
| Robert Burns - 1816 - 342 pages
...of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In ray infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family,...devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkics, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers,... | |
| 1819 - 196 pages
...he shewed any attachment to poetry, notwithstanding his acquaintance with an antient beldam, who had the largest collection in the country of tales and songs, concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, witches, &c. In his seventeenth year, he went to a country dancing-school, though much in opposition... | |
| 1819 - 404 pages
...he shewed any attachment to poetry, notwithstanding his acquaintance with an anticnt heldam, who had the largest collection in the country of tales and songs, concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, witches, Au-. In his seventeenth year, he went to a country dancing-school, though much in opposition... | |
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