The Ballads and Songs of Scotland: In View of Their Influence on the Character of the People |
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... which are separated by all the earth's diameter , and distinguished by every variety in the manners of life ; while it survives among us still in minds which have yet been scarcely affected by the scientific spirit of modern times .
... which are separated by all the earth's diameter , and distinguished by every variety in the manners of life ; while it survives among us still in minds which have yet been scarcely affected by the scientific spirit of modern times .
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... in Scotland , rose to the dignity of a potent sorcerer , who mastered the evil spirit , and , forcing it to do her will , spread among the people a far deeper and more lasting terror . ” — History of Civilization , vol . ii . p .
... in Scotland , rose to the dignity of a potent sorcerer , who mastered the evil spirit , and , forcing it to do her will , spread among the people a far deeper and more lasting terror . ” — History of Civilization , vol . ii . p .
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But the good office which was performed for Alcmena by a stratagem of her maid Galanthis , is here accomplished , in a similar manner , by the ingenuity of a good spirit named Billy Blind , who , in his kindly services to men ...
But the good office which was performed for Alcmena by a stratagem of her maid Galanthis , is here accomplished , in a similar manner , by the ingenuity of a good spirit named Billy Blind , who , in his kindly services to men ...
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... that , in the former , the charmer is evidently a spirit of the waters , -a kelpie or merman , 2 — while , in the latter , he is a knight of the elfin. 1 Buchan's “ Ballads of the North of Scotland , ” vol . i . p . 22 .
... that , in the former , the charmer is evidently a spirit of the waters , -a kelpie or merman , 2 — while , in the latter , he is a knight of the elfin. 1 Buchan's “ Ballads of the North of Scotland , ” vol . i . p . 22 .
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... while the account of the ghostly visit is marred by horrid details of the grave , confounding the dim imagination of the disembodied spirit's mysterious home with pictures of the charnel - house in which the body corrupts .
... while the account of the ghostly visit is marred by horrid details of the grave , confounding the dim imagination of the disembodied spirit's mysterious home with pictures of the charnel - house in which the body corrupts .
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| Վերնագիր | The Ballads and Songs of Scotland: In View of Their Influence on the Character of the People Թողարկում 11213 of CIHM/ICMH microfiche series |
| Հեղինակ | John Clark Murray |
| Հրատարակիչ | Macmillan and Company, 1874 |
| Original from | Հարվարդի համալսարան |
| Digitized | 4 Նոյեմբեր 2008 |
| ISBN | 0999255886, 9780999255889 |
| Length | 205 էջ |
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