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... called Topo- graphical Rhymes . In some instances the ideas introduced are of a striking and poetical nature ; and it is worthy of remark , that , even where the names alone are given in the versified list , there is usually a euphony ...
... called Topo- graphical Rhymes . In some instances the ideas introduced are of a striking and poetical nature ; and it is worthy of remark , that , even where the names alone are given in the versified list , there is usually a euphony ...
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... called upon here to * It happens that this conjecture derives force from a particular circum- stance connected with the history of the Rhymer . Scott concludes his ac- count of Thomas in the Border Minstrelsy by mentioning that the ...
... called upon here to * It happens that this conjecture derives force from a particular circum- stance connected with the history of the Rhymer . Scott concludes his ac- count of Thomas in the Border Minstrelsy by mentioning that the ...
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... that the walls of Fyvie Castle had stood for seven years and a day , wall - wide , waiting for the arrival of True Tammas , as he is called in that district . At length he suddenly appeared before the RHYMES ON PLACES . 19.
... that the walls of Fyvie Castle had stood for seven years and a day , wall - wide , waiting for the arrival of True Tammas , as he is called in that district . At length he suddenly appeared before the RHYMES ON PLACES . 19.
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... called the Cummin's Craig , where ' tis said one of the Cummins , Earls of Buchan , by a fall from his horse at hunting , dashed out his brains . The prediction goes that this earl ( who lived under Alex- ander III . ) had called Thomas ...
... called the Cummin's Craig , where ' tis said one of the Cummins , Earls of Buchan , by a fall from his horse at hunting , dashed out his brains . The prediction goes that this earl ( who lived under Alex- ander III . ) had called Thomas ...
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... called Tammas's Stane . One of Thomas's supposed prophecies referring to this district appears as a mere deceptive jingle- When Dee and Don shall run in one , And Tweed shall run in Tay , The bonnie water o ' Urie Shall bear the Bass ...
... called Tammas's Stane . One of Thomas's supposed prophecies referring to this district appears as a mere deceptive jingle- When Dee and Don shall run in one , And Tweed shall run in Tay , The bonnie water o ' Urie Shall bear the Bass ...
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Aberdeenshire ancient auld wife bairn baith Berwickshire birds BLACK KNIGHT bonny Borrowing Days boys bunnock called Carse of Gowrie castle cock dance Diocese of Aberdeen dochter door Douglas Dumfriesshire Earl Edinburgh fair fairy fire Forfarshire frae gaed gane gang gaun gi'e Glenlogie goodman goodwife ha'e hame hand Harpkin hill Hogmanay horse Janet Jock Johnie king lady Laird land lily-cock Lord mair maun merry-ma-tanzie mony morning mother Mozie muckle ne'er neighbours never night owre parish Peeblesshire popular Poussie rhyme round Roxburghshire says Scot Scotland Scottish Selkirkshire sing stane stone story sword syne tell thee There's Thomas the Rhymer thou town verse weather wee Robin weel Whuppity Stoorie winna ye'll young Yule
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Página 153 - He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. 3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Página 142 - If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; But if it be dark with clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again.
Página 152 - The west wind always brings wet weather, The east wind wet and cold together, The south wind surely brings us rain, The north wind blows it back again. " If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet ; If the sun should set in grey, The next will be a rainy day.
Página 153 - Can you explain this omen? Phys. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing or depositing the rain are opposite to the sun — and in the evening the rainbow is in the east, and in the morning in the west; and as our heavy rains, in this climate, are usually brought by the westerly...
Página 144 - April Three days, and they were ill : The first o' them was wind and weet ; The second o' them was snaw and sleet ; The third o' them was sic a freeze, It froze the birds
Página 317 - 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 283 - Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
Página 325 - I saw a Peacock 1SAW a peacock with a fiery tail I saw a blazing comet drop down hail I saw a cloud with ivy circled round I saw a sturdy oak creep on the ground I saw a pismire swallow up a whale I saw...
Página 283 - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away.
Página 13 - O they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea. It was mirk mirk night, and there was nae stern light,' And they waded through red blude to the knee ; For a' the blude that's shed on earth Rins through the springs o