| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831 - 546 pages
...abandoned by the fairies, who have resolutely maintained secure footing in a region so well suited for their residence. Indeed, so much was this the case...fairy race as a sort of astral spirits, of a kind betwixt humanity and angels—says, that they have children, nurses, marriages, deaths, and burials,... | |
| Walter Scott - Demonology - 1833 - 360 pages
...abandoned by the fairies, who have resolutely maintained secure footing in a region so well suited for their residence. Indeed, so much was this the case...and' compiling his Essay on the " Subterranean and tor the most part Invisible People, heretofore going under the name of Elves, Fawnes, and Fairies,... | |
| Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1837 - 936 pages
...fairies, who have resolutely maintained secure footing in a region so well suited for theirrcsidence. Indeed, so much was this the case formerly, that Mr...the like." * In this discourse, the author, " with • The title continues,—" Among the Low Country Scots, as they are described by those who have the... | |
| Walter Scott - Demonology - 1848 - 354 pages
...copsewoods, are not even yet quite abandoned by the fairies, who have resolutely maintained secure footing.in a region so well suited foi their residence. Indeed,...Invisible People, heretofore going under the name of Klves, Fawnes, and Fairies, or the like."* In this discourse, th«! author, " with undoubting inind,"... | |
| English fiction - 1848 - 588 pages
...country, is of Celtic origin. His work is entitled, "The Secret Commonwealth; or the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean, and, for the most part, Invisible...People, heretofore going under the name of Elves, Faunes, and Fairies, and the like." Mr. Kirk writes chiefly of the Highland fairy; and he does so as... | |
| Joel Tyler Headley, J. T. Headley - Gift books - 1855 - 356 pages
...during the present century been reprinted for the amusement of those not quite so credulous, entitled, " On the Subterranean and for the most part Invisible People, heretofore going nn der the name of Elves, Fawnes, and Fairies, and the like." In this essay, the reverend and learned... | |
| 1869 - 390 pages
...spongious, thin, and defecat, that * See " The Secret Commonwealth ; an Essay on the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean and, for the most part, Invisible People, heretofore going under the name of Elves, Faunes, and Fairies, as they are described by those having the Second Sight, &c." By Mr. Eobert Kirk,... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - Demonology - 1870 - 426 pages
...abandoned by the fairies, who have resolutely maintained secure footing in a region so well suited for their residence. Indeed, so much was this the case formerly, that Mr. Kirk, while in his latter charge of Aberfoil, found materials for collecting and compiling his Essay... | |
| Walter Scott - Demonology - 1872 - 454 pages
...fairies, who have resolutely maintained secure footing in a region so well suited for their residenee. Indeed, so much was this the case formerly, that Mr....fairy race as a sort of astral spirits, of a kind betwixt humanity and angels — says, that they have children, nurses, marriages, deaths, and burials,... | |
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