A New, Improved, and Authentic Life of James Allan: The Celebrated Northumberland Piper, Detailing His Surprising Adventures in Various Parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Including a Complete Description of the Manners and Customs of the Gipsy TribesMackenzie and Dent, 1828 - 472 oldal |
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... observations which were made on this subject on another occasion : - " What claims can a vagrant piper have to the remembrance of posterity ? Should any one be so contracted as querulously to ask this question , I reply , many ; for ...
... observations which were made on this subject on another occasion : - " What claims can a vagrant piper have to the remembrance of posterity ? Should any one be so contracted as querulously to ask this question , I reply , many ; for ...
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... observations in China , in India , in Tartary , and in other countries , exactly correspond with those published by the most learned , accurate , and esteemed travellers , and afford such presumptive and internal evidences of the sub ...
... observations in China , in India , in Tartary , and in other countries , exactly correspond with those published by the most learned , accurate , and esteemed travellers , and afford such presumptive and internal evidences of the sub ...
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... observe that many of the occurrences in Allan's eventful life were , at dif- ferent times , related by himself to various persons in the confi- dence of private conversation ; and as he never suspected that his words would be penned ...
... observe that many of the occurrences in Allan's eventful life were , at dif- ferent times , related by himself to various persons in the confi- dence of private conversation ; and as he never suspected that his words would be penned ...
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... observed , " that if any of the Allan family were dying , the very mention of a salmon would bring them to life again . " At an early period of Will's life , he and his bro- ther James left the place of their nativity , and took up ...
... observed , " that if any of the Allan family were dying , the very mention of a salmon would bring them to life again . " At an early period of Will's life , he and his bro- ther James left the place of their nativity , and took up ...
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... observed , had long despised the laws , and spurned at every species of control ; and even in Allan's days , they were rude and unsubdued . The following anecdote , from the " Border Tour , " relates to a still more recent period ...
... observed , had long despised the laws , and spurned at every species of control ; and even in Allan's days , they were rude and unsubdued . The following anecdote , from the " Border Tour , " relates to a still more recent period ...
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
accompanied acquainted alarmed Allan rose Alnwick Alnwick Castle amongst amusement appeared bagpipe bashaw battle of Minden became began captain chief cloaths conduct dance delighted deserter door dread dress drinking Duchess of Northumberland English enquired entered escape esquire farmer father favour favourite female friends gang gave gentleman Gipsy girl guineas hand handsome happy heard Hexham honour horse husband immediately informed instantly James Allan Jamie Jean Jedburgh joined journey lady lodgings manner Mary master ment merry miles morning Morpeth musician never Newcastle night North Shields Northumberland observed officer party person piper pipes play poor procured public house reached received regiment replied requested resolved returned road Rothbury Scotch piper Scotland seemed seized sent serjeant servant shewed ship soldiers soon spirits surprised tion took travelled tribe tune vagrant vessel village walked wandered whole wife woman Wooler Yetholm young
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190. oldal - M'Pherson's time will not be long, On yonder gallows tree. . Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaed he ; He play'da spring, and danc'd it round, Below the gallows tree. Oh, what is death but parting breath ?— On mony a bloody plain I've dar'd his face, and in this place I.
153. oldal - About sunset, however, as I was preparing to pass the night in this manner, and had turned my horse loose that he might graze at liberty, a woman...
153. oldal - ... me, and perceiving / that I was weary and dejected, inquired into my situation, which I briefly explained to her : whereupon, with looks of great compassion, she took up my saddle and bridle, and told me to follow her.
103. oldal - O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild. A vagabond and useless tribe there eat Their miserable meal. A kettle, slung Between two poles upon a stick transverse, Receives the morsel ; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloined From his accustomed perch.
36. oldal - ... death in the Eden. It was an operation of some time, for Jean was a stout woman, and, struggling with her murderers, often got her head above water ; and, while she had voice left, continued to exclaim at such intervals,
34. oldal - The lady herself, as well as the survivor of Faw's followers, contributed to perpetuate the remembrance of the transaction ; for if he wrote a song about it, she wrought it in tapestry ; and this piece of workmanship is still preserved at Culzean Castle. It remains to be mentioned, that the ford, by which the lady and her lover crossed the river Doon from a wood near Cassilis House, is still denominated the Gypsie steps...
307. oldal - These people continuing about the country, and practising their cosening art, purchased themselves great credit among the country people, and got much by palmistry, and telling of fortunes ; insomuch, they pitifully cosened poor country girls, both of money, silver spoons, and the best of their apparelle, or any goods they could make.
154. oldal - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
190. oldal - Untie these bands from off my hands, And bring to me my sword ; And there's no a man in all Scotland, But I'll brave him at a word.
36. oldal - Jean was present, and only said, "The Lord help the innocent in a day like this! " Her own death was accompanied with circumstances of brutal outrage, of which Jean was in many respects wholly undeserving.