Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of ScotlandA. Gardner, 1896 - 434 páginas |
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... Scottish books I could find with the view of picking out the proverbs from their pages . Amongst the authors care- fully studied were Scott , Burns , Ramsay , Galt , Hogg , and many others too numerous to mention here , but to whom ...
... Scottish books I could find with the view of picking out the proverbs from their pages . Amongst the authors care- fully studied were Scott , Burns , Ramsay , Galt , Hogg , and many others too numerous to mention here , but to whom ...
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... Scottish proverbs which has hitherto appeared . However , Allan Ramsay , the poet , took exception to the purity of Kelly's ... Scots nor English . " There is little doubt that , to a certain extent at least , Ramsay's complaint was well ...
... Scottish proverbs which has hitherto appeared . However , Allan Ramsay , the poet , took exception to the purity of Kelly's ... Scots nor English . " There is little doubt that , to a certain extent at least , Ramsay's complaint was well ...
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... Scottish Proverbs is that formed by Alexander Hislop , the first edition of which was published in Glasgow in 1862. In ... Scots appear to have as few proverbs of their own as they have ballads ; but the so - called proverbs of Scotland ...
... Scottish Proverbs is that formed by Alexander Hislop , the first edition of which was published in Glasgow in 1862. In ... Scots appear to have as few proverbs of their own as they have ballads ; but the so - called proverbs of Scotland ...
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... Scots possess a certain number of adages of native growth and Northern upon the face , but how far these might go ... Scottish ; numbers of them are clearly of English , Classical , Eastern or Continental origin . But it is some- what ...
... Scots possess a certain number of adages of native growth and Northern upon the face , but how far these might go ... Scottish ; numbers of them are clearly of English , Classical , Eastern or Continental origin . But it is some- what ...
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... Scottish literary antiquities . The outstanding defect of this work is its tendency to undue prolixity in the notes on the rhymes - in short , to use a pithy old saying , there's " muckle whistlin ' for little red land . " The book ...
... Scottish literary antiquities . The outstanding defect of this work is its tendency to undue prolixity in the notes on the rhymes - in short , to use a pithy old saying , there's " muckle whistlin ' for little red land . " The book ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Aberdeenshire Antiquary applied auld bairns baith banes Berwickshire better bird bonny bread Bride of Lammermoor called canna Castle cauld Compare deil dinna doun drink Earl Edinburgh English say Ettrick Shepherd Fair Maid fish fool Fortunes of Nigel frae Gaelic Galt's gang gude Guy Mannering hame hand haud hauf head Heart of Midlothian Henderson Highland horse ilka ither kail keep Kelly King laird Lord Maid of Perth maidens mair man's married maun meat milk mony muckle naething ne'er never Old Mortality ower parish person Perth phrase poor proverb purse Redgauntlet Refers rhyme Rob Roy Ronan's Scotland Scots Scottish siller Spoken stane THERE'S thing toun wark waur Waverley weel wife winna YE hae ye'll YE'RE
Pasajes populares
Página 94 - He answered and said unto them, "When it is evening ye say, 'It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.
Página 81 - O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!
Página 208 - It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour, To see how things are shar'd ; How best o...
Página 100 - Lylliard lies under this stane, Little was her stature, but great was her fame ; Upon the English louns she laid mony thumps, And when her legs were cutted off, she fought upon her stumps.
Página 324 - Hesperus ! thou bringest all good things — Home to the weary, to the hungry cheer, To the young bird the parent's brooding wings, The welcome stall to the...
Página 246 - March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, A bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom.
Página 193 - If Candlemas Day be fair and bright Winter will have another flight But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain Winter is gone and will not come again.
Página 180 - The Man in the Wilderness The Man in the Wilderness asked of me, "How many strawberries grow in the sea?" I answered him, as I thought good, "As many red herrings as grow in the wood.
Página 302 - GRACE. SOME hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it ; But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thanket. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF PEG NICHOLSON. PEG Nicholson was a gude bay mare, As ever trode on airn ; But now she's floating down the Nith, An' past the mouth o
Página 9 - A Knight of Cales, A Gentleman of Wales, And a Laird of the North Countree ; A Yeoman of Kent With his yearly Rent Will buy 'em out all three.