 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 Works of Robert Burns - Page 23by Robert Burns - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1801 - 762 pages
...devils, .ghofls, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, fpunkies, kelpies, elf candles, dead lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted...dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent feeds of poetry; but had fo flrong an efleft on my imagination, that to this hour, in rny noflurnal... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...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...spunkies, " kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, appa" ritions, cantraips, giants, inchanted towers, <f dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated... | |
 | 1801 - 584 pages
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 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...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...fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf" candles, .— ». * Idiot for idiotic. candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1808 - 558 pages
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 | James Plumptre - 1811 - 486 pages
...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...towers, dragons and other trumpery. This cultivated the Intent seeds of poetry ; but had so strong an effect on ray imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...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 collection...devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkeys, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted lowers,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...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...dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, inchantcd towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry ; but had... | |
 | 1819 - 364 pages
...1 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...kelpies, elfcandles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraps, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 pages
...1 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...kelpies, elfcandles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraps, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of... | |
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