Select Writings of Robert Chambers, Volumen7W. & R. Chambers, 1847 |
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... * And concludes his litany- From all the knock - down race of Knoxes Good Lord deliver us ! ' * Burnet's Memoirs of the Dukes of Hamilton , p . 83 . dancing upon the beams of the new moon , and ( 105 ) RHYMES CONNECTED WITH SUPERSTITIONS,
... * And concludes his litany- From all the knock - down race of Knoxes Good Lord deliver us ! ' * Burnet's Memoirs of the Dukes of Hamilton , p . 83 . dancing upon the beams of the new moon , and ( 105 ) RHYMES CONNECTED WITH SUPERSTITIONS,
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Robert Chambers. dancing upon the beams of the new moon , and feast , unseen , in thousands , under the blossom of the wild violet . * These adopted children , perhaps , remained amongst them only in the quality of friends , platonic ...
Robert Chambers. dancing upon the beams of the new moon , and feast , unseen , in thousands , under the blossom of the wild violet . * These adopted children , perhaps , remained amongst them only in the quality of friends , platonic ...
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... dancing song of a large body of witches , who landed one night in a fleet of sieves and cockle - shells at a place near the church of North Ber- wick , where they held some unspeakable saturnalia : — Cummer , go ye before ; cummer , go ...
... dancing song of a large body of witches , who landed one night in a fleet of sieves and cockle - shells at a place near the church of North Ber- wick , where they held some unspeakable saturnalia : — Cummer , go ye before ; cummer , go ...
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... dancing , Singing , and others was playing : * * * But ere they wist , richt in the hall Douglas and his rout coming were all , And cried on hicht , ' Douglas ! Douglas ! ' And they that ma war than he was , Heard ' Douglas ! ' cried ...
... dancing , Singing , and others was playing : * * * But ere they wist , richt in the hall Douglas and his rout coming were all , And cried on hicht , ' Douglas ! Douglas ! ' And they that ma war than he was , Heard ' Douglas ! ' cried ...
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... Dance to your daddie , My bonnie laddie , Dance to your daddie , my bonnie lamb ! And ye'll get a fishie In a little dishie- Ye'll get a fishie when the boat comes hame ! Dance to your daddie , My bonnie laddie , Dance to your daddie ...
... Dance to your daddie , My bonnie laddie , Dance to your daddie , my bonnie lamb ! And ye'll get a fishie In a little dishie- Ye'll get a fishie when the boat comes hame ! Dance to your daddie , My bonnie laddie , Dance to your daddie ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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