Strains of the Mountain Museauthor, 1814 - 228 Seiten |
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... Lady left on Kilda's isle . And by Kilchattan bay , How by a saint , they say , Rais'd in one night was the fane's stately pile ! Saw ye her e'er at the kirk on a holiday ? Heard he her ever speak well of Mess John ? Even the pious Knox ...
... Lady left on Kilda's isle . And by Kilchattan bay , How by a saint , they say , Rais'd in one night was the fane's stately pile ! Saw ye her e'er at the kirk on a holiday ? Heard he her ever speak well of Mess John ? Even the pious Knox ...
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... lady , who Would speak as fine as Gilbert strives to do ; His highest aim , and eke his only care , Is now to gab and gossip with the fair . Few shine like him at either ball or rout , To which he nightly is invited out ; And ere he is ...
... lady , who Would speak as fine as Gilbert strives to do ; His highest aim , and eke his only care , Is now to gab and gossip with the fair . Few shine like him at either ball or rout , To which he nightly is invited out ; And ere he is ...
Seite 97
... downfal was not quite so near As to his female cronies might appear ; His house continues constantly to be A scene of the politest company . G His Lady , ever fashionably gay , Walks much abroad GIBBIE GANE GYTE . 97.
... downfal was not quite so near As to his female cronies might appear ; His house continues constantly to be A scene of the politest company . G His Lady , ever fashionably gay , Walks much abroad GIBBIE GANE GYTE . 97.
Seite 98
Joseph Train. His Lady , ever fashionably gay , Walks much abroad , her trappings to display ; But lest her health should in the town be lost , They take up summer lodgings on the coast . And though the Largs is thirty miles from town ...
Joseph Train. His Lady , ever fashionably gay , Walks much abroad , her trappings to display ; But lest her health should in the town be lost , They take up summer lodgings on the coast . And though the Largs is thirty miles from town ...
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... lady , who was honoured in Carrick with the title of Witch , and who , it would ap- pear , made no scruple in turning her skill in the black art to the advantage of her country in the hour of dan- ger , seated herself upon a promontory ...
... lady , who was honoured in Carrick with the title of Witch , and who , it would ap- pear , made no scruple in turning her skill in the black art to the advantage of her country in the hour of dan- ger , seated herself upon a promontory ...
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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...