 ... 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, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths,...  Annual Register - Pàgina 317editat per - 1801Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pàgines
...devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions] cantraips, giants, enchanted...dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry ; but had so strong an effect upon my imagination, that to this hour in my nocturnal... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 pàgines
...songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkiea, kelpies, elf-candles, dead- lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants,...dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry; but had so strong an effect upon my imagination, that to this hour in my nocturnal... | |
 | 1883 - 558 pàgines
...devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted...dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry ; but had so strong an effect on my imagination that to this hour, in my nocturnal... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - 1885 - 456 pàgines
...devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted...dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry ; but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal... | |
 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1892 - 322 pàgines
...devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted...dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry. . . . The earliest composition that I recollect taking pleasure in was 'The Vision... | |
 | James Craig Higgins - 1893 - 252 pàgines
...concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, deadlights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted...dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry ; but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal... | |
 | John Ingram (F. S. A., Scot.) - 1893 - 164 pàgines
...devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted...dragons and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poesie; but had so strong an effect upon my imagination that, to this hour in my nocturnal... | |
 | 1893 - 780 pàgines
...poet's early years and greatly influenced his imagination. ''In my infant and boyish days, I tions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry." One incident of his earliest home merits repetition. One stormy morning, when he... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - 1894 - 300 pàgines
...concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elfcandles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted...dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry, but had so strong an effect on my imagination that to this hour, in my nocturnal rambles,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1895 - 512 pàgines
...concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, deadlights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted...towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated th» latent seeds of poetry; but had so strong an effect Dn ray imagination, that to this hour, in... | |
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