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 Scottish Nation: Or, The Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and ... - Page 489by William Anderson - 1877Full view - About this book
| John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants and enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and Bongs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches,...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants and enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds... | |
| Robert Burns - English letters - 1859 - 736 pages
...remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest colleetion in the country of tales and songs concerning devils,...cultivated the latent seeds of poetry, but had so strong an effeet on my imagination, that to this hour, in my noeturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp lookout... | |
| 1859 - 448 pages
...collection in the country of tales and songs concerning demons, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions,...latent seeds of poetry, but had so strong an effect on Burns's imagination, that after he had grown to manhood, in his nocturnal rambles he sometimes kept... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 216 pages
...resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country, of tales and...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of... | |
| 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... | |
| John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 332 pages
...collection in the country of tales and songs concerning demons, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions,...latent seeds of poetry, but had so strong an effect on Burns's imagination, that after he had grown to manhood, in his nocturnal rambles he sometimes kept... | |
| Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 pages
...collection in the country of tales and songs concerning demons, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions,...latent seeds of poetry, but had so strong an effect on Burns's imagination, that after he had grown to manhood, in his nocturnal rambles, he sometimes kept... | |
| Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 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... | |
| Burns Club of the City of New York - 1860 - 164 pages
...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...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery." Little did the gude auld wife imagine... | |
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