Strains of the Mountain Museauthor, 1814 - 228 Seiten |
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... Laird The Banished Bard The Inks of Cree • • • • Page . 7 · 69 . 78 • 93 101 • 105 · · · 109 113 116 • Lines on the Marriage of Sir D. H. Blair Invocation to the Shade of R. Tannahill . . 118 • 120 124 127 130 · 133 · 185 Lines for the ...
... Laird The Banished Bard The Inks of Cree • • • • Page . 7 · 69 . 78 • 93 101 • 105 · · · 109 113 116 • Lines on the Marriage of Sir D. H. Blair Invocation to the Shade of R. Tannahill . . 118 • 120 124 127 130 · 133 · 185 Lines for the ...
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... Laird Ronald took the friendly care To bid the Pedlar thus beware : - XLIII . " Nightly trav❜ller , if thy way Lead thee o'er yon mountain grey , Tread not on the beaten path Leading to the blasted heath , Lest some wild wanchancy ...
... Laird Ronald took the friendly care To bid the Pedlar thus beware : - XLIII . " Nightly trav❜ller , if thy way Lead thee o'er yon mountain grey , Tread not on the beaten path Leading to the blasted heath , Lest some wild wanchancy ...
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... " quo ' she , " NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET shall be . " H In this remote region , surrounded by rocks , Where 113 Scotia The Highland Foray The Quaking Ash Tree The Warlock Laird The Banished Bard The Inks of Cree Page 7 69 78 93.
... " quo ' she , " NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET shall be . " H In this remote region , surrounded by rocks , Where 113 Scotia The Highland Foray The Quaking Ash Tree The Warlock Laird The Banished Bard The Inks of Cree Page 7 69 78 93.
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... 'd my Nannie , " Fye , let him a - be : " Wi ' that the shrill cock crew , They vanish'd , gude kens how , But I stood alane by the Quaking Ash Tree . THE WARLOCK LAIRD . WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF AN OLD THE QUAKING ASH TREE . 119.
... 'd my Nannie , " Fye , let him a - be : " Wi ' that the shrill cock crew , They vanish'd , gude kens how , But I stood alane by the Quaking Ash Tree . THE WARLOCK LAIRD . WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF AN OLD THE QUAKING ASH TREE . 119.
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... Laird of Fail , They came to a house , where the gudewife she Was brewing the shearers ale . Sir Thomas alighted at the door Before the Laird of Fail , " And will ye gie me , gudewife , " quo ' he , " A drink of your shearer's ale ...
... Laird of Fail , They came to a house , where the gudewife she Was brewing the shearers ale . Sir Thomas alighted at the door Before the Laird of Fail , " And will ye gie me , gudewife , " quo ' he , " A drink of your shearer's ale ...
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adder stone appear Ash Tree auld Aye sae Ayrshire Beltan blast blaze blooming Jessie blue-eyed lassie bonny brae breast bridle cairn Carrick castle cattle ceremonies clouds corpse Cree cried Culzean currach dance dark David Hunter dead death Druids e'en e'er Elcine de Aggart ev'ry fear fire flee friends funeral gate grave green Gregor hand heard heath heaven Highlands hill honour housie isle Kilchattan bay lady Lagg Laird of Fail light Logierait Lord maid Mair midnight milk moon mountain mournful Mungo's ne'er Newton Stewart night Note o'er Papingo pass pass'd Picts Pinmore poor pray raised ROBERT TANNAHILL rocks rose round Saint Saint Kentigern scene Scot Scotland Seanachies seat seem'd seen sigh sing Sir Archibald song soon spirit stone superstitions tell thee toil tree Twas Wake warlock wight wild wind witchcraft witches wont young Yule
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Seite 213 - This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses ; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep ; and so on.' After that, they use the same ceremony to the noxious animals : ' This I give to thee, O fox ! spare thou my lambs ; this to thee, O hooded crow ! this to thee, O...
Seite 170 - And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Seite 111 - I sigh for their dames, who may now take the veil ; For babes who the loss of their sires may bewail ; But while the great death-bell of Toledo tolls, And friars unceasingly pray for their souls, With this mystic clue, Made when Elfland was new, Who will not give praise in her own native land, To Elcine de Aggart for guarding the strand.
Seite 197 - Since you were married man and wife, By household brawls, or contentious strife; Or otherwise, in bed or at board, Offended each other in deed or word : Or since the parish clerk said Amen...
Seite 207 - All hail to the moon, all hail to thee ; I prithee, good moon, reveal to me This night who my husband shall be.
Seite 164 - One was turning a small stock, which was supported by two stakes standing perpendicularly, with a cleft at the top, in which the crown piece went round in the form a carpenter holds a chisel on a grinding stone; the other was holding a small branch of fir on that which was turning. Directly below it was a quantity of tow spread on the ground. I observed that this work was taken alternately by men and women. As I was turning about in order to leave them, a man whom I had seen before, laid his hand...
Seite 11 - I dwall amang the caller springs That weet the Land o' Cakes, And aften tune my canty strings At bridals and late-wakes: They ca' me Mirth; I ne'er was kend To grumble or look sour, But blyth wad be a lift to lend, Gif ye wad sey my pow'r An
Seite 213 - The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation: on that, every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks...
Seite 213 - They cut a square trench in the ground, leaving the turf in the middle ; on that they make a fire of wood, on which they dress a large caudle of eggs, butter, oatmeal, and milk, and bring, besides the ingredients of the caudle, plenty of beer and whiskey : for each of the company must contribute something.
Seite 192 - Archibald) was no inferior actor. Many stories similar to those related of him are told of the most obnoxious of the persecutors, from which I have selected the following, recorded of the famous Grierson of Lagg. who, although represented by his contemporaries as having acted like a demon while upon earth, posterity allows to have performed one act of justice after his decease. A man in the parish of New Abbey, who had the lease of a farm from the Laird of Lagg, called on him one day to pay a considerable...