 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the...songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witchies, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the...songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witchies, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...old woman (Jenny Wilson) who resided in the family, remarkable for her credulity and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the...kelpies, elfcandles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...an old woman who resided in the family, remarkahle for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the...kelpies, elf-candles, deadlights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery.1 This cultivated the latent seeds... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...UL old woman vho resided in the family, remarkable foi her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country, of tales and tongs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf- candles,... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 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...giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. " The household life of Burns's parents is represented in the imperishable portraiture of the ' Cotter's... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the...dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants and enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry ; but... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the...dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants and enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry ; but... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...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 Bongs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles,... | |
 | 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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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,... 
