The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2; Volumes 4-5 |
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Page 337
... Reginald Scot - Conjectures on the derivation of the word Fairy . We may premise by observing , that the classics had not forgotten to enrol in their mythology a certain species of subordinate deities , resembling the modern elves in ...
... Reginald Scot - Conjectures on the derivation of the word Fairy . We may premise by observing , that the classics had not forgotten to enrol in their mythology a certain species of subordinate deities , resembling the modern elves in ...
Page 348
... Reginald Scot . The narrative is edifying , as pe- culiarly illustrative of the mode of marring a curious tale in telling it , which was one of the virtues professed by Caius when he hired himself to King Lear . Reginald Scot ...
... Reginald Scot . The narrative is edifying , as pe- culiarly illustrative of the mode of marring a curious tale in telling it , which was one of the virtues professed by Caius when he hired himself to King Lear . Reginald Scot ...
Page 351
... Scots assigned rather more serious influence . The most special account which I have found of the intercourse ... REGINALD SCOT , book I , chap . xxi . * See Scottish poems , edited by JOHN G. DALZELL DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT . 351.
... Scots assigned rather more serious influence . The most special account which I have found of the intercourse ... REGINALD SCOT , book I , chap . xxi . * See Scottish poems , edited by JOHN G. DALZELL DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT . 351.
Page 370
... Reginald Scot , talking of times before his own , " some one knave in a white sheet hath cozened and abused many thousands , specially when Robin Goodfellow kept such a coil in the country . In our childhood , our mothers ' maids have ...
... Reginald Scot , talking of times before his own , " some one knave in a white sheet hath cozened and abused many thousands , specially when Robin Goodfellow kept such a coil in the country . In our childhood , our mothers ' maids have ...
Page 372
... Reginald Scot , that the belief was fallen into abeyance ; that which follows , from the same author , affirms more positively that Robin's date was over : - 1 " Know you this by the way , that heretofore . Robin Goodfellow and ...
... Reginald Scot , that the belief was fallen into abeyance ; that which follows , from the same author , affirms more positively that Robin's date was over : - 1 " Know you this by the way , that heretofore . Robin Goodfellow and ...
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Popular passages
Page 383 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Page 107 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Page 141 - Lord, thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? MICAH.
Page 388 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Page 364 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Page 291 - Thro ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi usquabae, we'll face the Devil!
Page 159 - In gentle stream; then rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise. The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint; The solitary place was glad, And on the distant cairns the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note.
Page 348 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for...
Page 38 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 296 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.