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, fairies, brownies, -witches, warlocks,... An Essay on Capacity and Genius: To Prove that There is No Original Mental ... - Seite 276von William Andrew Mitchell - 1820 - 537 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 Seiten
...ten or eleven " 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 igno" ranee, credulity, and superstition. She had, " I suppose, the largest collection in the country... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 Seiten
...I was ten or eleven 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...country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf" candles, .— ». * Idiot for idiotic.... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 Seiten
...I was ten or eleven 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...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 Seiten
...an account of 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...country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 Seiten
...child. Though it cost the school master some thrashings, 1 made an excellent English 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 had, I suppose, the largest... | |
| Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 Seiten
...was ten or eleven 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...country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 Seiten
...of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and boyish days, too, 1 owed much to an old woman who resided in the family,...country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elfcandles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions,... | |
| 1819 - 364 Seiten
...of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and boyish days, too, 1 owed much to an old woman who resided in the family,...country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elfcandles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions,... | |
| 1819 - 196 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1819 - 404 Seiten
...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... | |
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