Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West HighlandsW. Paterson, 1883 - 417 páginas |
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... districts of Scot- land , the Sortes Sacræ are frequently resorted to by the people when they are in doubt or perplexity about anything of sufficient importance in their opinion to warrant their having recourse to this ancient mode of ...
... districts of Scot- land , the Sortes Sacræ are frequently resorted to by the people when they are in doubt or perplexity about anything of sufficient importance in their opinion to warrant their having recourse to this ancient mode of ...
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... districts . It seems to have been a very general as well as a very ancient mode of divination . Hoffman , in his Lexicon Universale , & c . , informs us that it was practised by the Jewish Rabbins with their sacred books , as well as by ...
... districts . It seems to have been a very general as well as a very ancient mode of divination . Hoffman , in his Lexicon Universale , & c . , informs us that it was practised by the Jewish Rabbins with their sacred books , as well as by ...
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... districts , " the sovereignest thing on earth . " And one can quite understand how tea leaves , at once cooling and astringent , employed in this way , may benefit a hot and inflamed eye . It is a simple application at all events , and ...
... districts , " the sovereignest thing on earth . " And one can quite understand how tea leaves , at once cooling and astringent , employed in this way , may benefit a hot and inflamed eye . It is a simple application at all events , and ...
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... district , the body was exhumed by the people , and cast into the sea ; not , however , before a brother of Silas - Nic- Cholla flayed the right arm from the shoulder to the elbow , and of the skin thus flayed was made a dirk sheath ...
... district , the body was exhumed by the people , and cast into the sea ; not , however , before a brother of Silas - Nic- Cholla flayed the right arm from the shoulder to the elbow , and of the skin thus flayed was made a dirk sheath ...
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... district of Appin sent us a message a few days ago begging us to go and have a look at what he termed a rarissimus piscis , a most rare fish that had been caught in a scringe net along with a lot of sethe and mackerel . In complying ...
... district of Appin sent us a message a few days ago begging us to go and have a look at what he termed a rarissimus piscis , a most rare fish that had been caught in a scringe net along with a lot of sethe and mackerel . In complying ...
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admirably amongst animal Appin Ardgour autumn Ballachulish beautiful believe Ben Nevis bird bright called Castle Stalker cave chaffinch CHAPTER cold colour common curious days ago delight district eating eggs evil fact fairy favourite fieldfare Fingalian fish flowers frequently frost Gaelic glen Glen Nevis Glenevis green hand hazel head heard Hebrides hedgehog hour interesting known labours land least less lively Loch Loch Leven Loch Linnhe Lochaber axe look matter meteors moon morning Mortimer Collins mountain neighbourhood neighbouring nest Nether Lochaber never night observed occasion once otter ourselves Outer Hebrides perhaps plant poet potato present probably proper rain rare raven reader recollect round Scotland season seemed seen shores singing song specimen spot spotted crake storm summer superstition thing thistle watch water-vole weather West Highlands wild wild-birds wind wing winter wonder
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Página 128 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away ; for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone : the flowers appear on the earth ; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 288 - Pope. Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Página 45 - ... while the Earth remaineth seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Página 66 - And now, my race of terror run, Mine be the eve of tropic Sun ! No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay ; With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once — and all is night.
Página 81 - When forced the fair nymph to forego. What anguish I felt at my heart: Yet I thought — but it might not be so — Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly discern; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
Página 80 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Página 31 - La gentille aloiiette, avec son tirelire, Tirelire a lire, et tireliran tire, Vers la voute du ciel, puis son vol vers ce lieu, Vire et desire dire adieu Dieu, adieu Dieu.
Página 110 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Página 154 - And so the time beguile ; And if the moon doth hide her head. The glowworm lights us home to bed.
Página 406 - How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!