...knowledge of Burns among the London circles of rank and literature. "In my infant and boyish days, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family,...her Ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country, of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies,...

...Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in...her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies,...

...Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. The earliest composition that 1 recollect taking pleasure in was 'The Vision of Mirza,' and a hymn...

...it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar; •and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and participles. The earliest composition that I recollect taking pleasure in reading, was the Vision of...

...it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar ; •and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and participles. The earliest composition that I recollect taking pleasure in reading, was the Vision of...

...all the education they ever had." Robert was then in his ninth year, and had owed much, he tells us, to " an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable...her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies,...

...Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar ; and hy the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in suhstantives, verhs, and participles. In my infant and hoyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman...

...race. BURNS, the celebrated Scottish bard, owed much of his poetry, he tells us in one of his letters, to " an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable...her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose," says Burns, " the largest collection in the country, of tales and songs concerning devils,...

...Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, 1 made an excellent English scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in...for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She bad, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and »ongs concerning devils, ghosts,...

...Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in...her ignorance, credulity and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies,...