The Popular Rhymes of Scotland: With Illustrations |
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Aberdeenshire Aberlady Aiken-drum ancient appear Ardoch auld wife Ayrshire ballad battle Battle of Otterburn Bemerside BONNIE 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 GI'E Glenlogie Glenurquhay Gordons Grahams gude GUTHRIE Highlands hill honourable horse inhabitants Iona Jedburgh Kenneth MacAlpin King known lady laird lance lands Learmont Leith 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 Thomas the Rhymer TILLIELOOT tion TOUN town tradition TWEED village WEAVERS whole word
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Page 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.
Page 145 - May the foul fiend drive ye, And a' to pieces rive ye, For building sic a town, Where there's neither horse meat, nor man's meat, nor a chair to sit down.
Page 274 - An' to look at my face in your clear crystal well, Micht gie pleasure to Aiken-drum. " I'se seek nae guids, gear, bond, nor mark; I use nae beddin', shoon, nor sark; But a cogfu' o' brose 'tween the licht an' the dark, Is the wage o
Page 272 - And the fient a body did him ken ; He tirled na lang, but he glided ben Wi a dreary, dreary hum. His face did glare like the glow o' the west, When the drumlie cloud has it half o'ercast ; Or the struggling moon when she's sair distrest.
Page 125 - That this phrase is at least a century old, is proved by its being used in the poems of Allan Ramsay, who, in a letter, or rather a return of compliments, to his flatterer, Hamilton of Gilbertfield, thus elegantly expresses himself: ' Gin ony sour-mou'd girning bucky Ca...
Page 91 - Seven years before that awful day When time shall be no more, A watery deluge shall o'ersweep Hibernia's mossy shore ; The green-clad Isla, too, shall sink, While with the great and good, Columba's happier isle shall rear Her towers above the flood.
Page 94 - ... is thrown in, it will be found, some time after, peeled, at the Water-laugh, a small lake at the base of the hill, supposed to communicate with Powbate. Of course, the hill is expected to break some day, like a bottle, and do a great deal of mischief. A prophecy, said to be by Thomas the...
Page 275 - He's no' be here ! His eldritch look gars us swarf wi' fear ; An' the feint a ane will the house come near, If they think but o