The Popular Rhymes of Scotland: With Illustrations, Chiefly Collected from Oral SourcesW. Hunter, 1826 - Всего страниц: 319 |
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Aberdeenshire Aberlady Aiken-drum ancient appear Ardoch auld wife Ayrshire ballad battle Battle of Otterburn Bemerside BONNIE bridge brownie burgh called Campbell Carse of Gowrie Castle century church circumstance clan ClanGregor Cultoquey Dalrymple death district Douglas Dryfe Dryfesdale Dundee Dundonald Castle Earl Edinburgh fairies FATHARA following rhyme FORFAR Forfarshire frae Gaelic Glenlogie Glenurquhay Gordons Grahams gude GUTHRIE hill honourable horse inhabitants Iona Jedburgh JOHNSTONS King known lady laird lance lands Learmont Leith LOCHTIE look Lord Lorntie Maormor miles mouth MUNE Murray MUSSELBURGH neighbours never night occasion parish Peebles perhaps person Perthshire phrase popular rhyme possession prophecy proverb Quothquan rhyme SALL Scot Scotland Scottish seems signifies Somerville spoon stone story style supposed Tanistry THERE'S thing Thomas the Rhymer TILLIELOOT tion TOUN town tradition TWEED village WEAVERS whole word
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Стр. 76 - Ercildoune, a person came running in, and told, with marks of fear and astonishment, that a hart and hind had left the neighbouring forest, and were, composedly and slowly, parading the street of the village, f The prophet instantly arose, left his habitation, and followed the wonderful animals to the forest, whence he was never seen to return. According to the popular belief, he still ' drees his weird ' in Fairy Land, and is one day expected to revisit earth.
Стр. 21 - 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.
Стр. 273 - But a philabeg o' the rashes green, An' his knotted knees play'd aye knoit between ; What a sicht was Aiken-drum ! On his wauchie arms three claws did meet, As they trail'd on the grun' by his taeless feet ; E'en the auld gudeman himsel' did sweat, To look at Aiken-drum. But he drew a score, himsel...
Стр. 89 - But ere the world come to an end, lona shall be as it was. Implying, says Paterson, author of the Legend of lona, that the island, after ages of ruin and neglect, shall again be the retreat of piety and learning. This sentiment seems to have struck Dr Johnson, without any knowledge of Columba's prophecy. ' Perhaps in the revolutions of the world, lona may be some time again the instructress of the western regions.
Стр. 275 - Roun' a' that side what wark was dune, By the streamer's gleam, or the glance o' the moon ; A word, or a wish — an' the Brownie cam sune, Sae helpfu
Стр. 125 - Fair fa' that soger did invent To ease the poets' toil wi' print : Now, William, we maun to the bent, An' pouse our fortune, An' crack wi' lads wha're weel content Wi' this our sporting. Gin ony sour-mou'd girning bucky Ca...
Стр. 263 - It was till lately believed by the ploughmen of Clydesdale, that if they repeated the rhyme Fairy, fairy, bake me a bannock and roast me a collop, And I'll gie ye a spurtle off my gadend ! three several times on turning their cattle at the terminations of ridges, they would find the said fare prepared for them on reaching the end of the fourth furrow.
Стр. 273 - E'en the auld gudeman himsel' did sweat, To look at Aiken-drum. But he drew a score, himsel' did sain, The auld wife tried, but her tongue was gane ; While the young ane closer clasped her wean, And turned frae Aiken-drum.
Стр. 242 - From the greed of the Campbells, From the ire of the Drummonds, From the pride of the Grahams, From the wind of the Murrays, Good Lord, deliver us...
Стр. 261 - A goblet is still carefully preserved in Edenhall, Cumberland, which is supposed to have been seized at a banquet of the elves, by one of the ancient family of Musgrave ; or, as others say, by one of their domestics, in the manner above described. The Fairy train vanished, crying aloud, "If this glass do break or fall, Farewell the luck of...