 ... 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 - Page 317redigeeritud poolt - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 lehte
...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 poesie, and had so strong an effect upon my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal... | |
 | 1845 - 440 lehte
...fairies, hrownies, witches, warloeks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, deadlights, wraiths, apparition*, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry ; hut had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 lehte
...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 effeet on my imagination, that to this hour, in my noeturnal... | |
 | Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont - 1859 - 476 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1859 - 448 lehte
...and songs concerning demons, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, 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 Burns's imagination, that after he had grown to manhood,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 332 lehte
...and songs concerning demons, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, 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 Burns's imagination, that after he had grown to manhood,... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 lehte
...and songs concerning demons, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, 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 Burns's imagination, that after he had grown to manhood,... | |
 | Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont - 1860 - 456 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1862 - 692 lehte
...songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. A thorough education would not have fettered this magnificent genius, while it would have saved him... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1866 - 356 lehte
...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... | |
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