 | 1803 - 624 pagina’s
...the fairies, concerning whom the reader will find a long dissertation^ Vol. II. p. 174. The brownie formed a class of beings, distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves. He was meagre, shaggy, and wild in his appearance. Thus, Cleland, in his satire against the Highlanders,... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 166 pagina’s
...nightly cell of viands store : Ne'er was thy form beheld among their mountains more*. * ' The Brownie formed a class of beings, distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves. He was meagre, shaggy, and wild in his appearance. Thus, Cleland, in his satire against the Highlanders,... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 168 pagina’s
...nightly cell of viands store : Ne'er was thy form beheld among their mountains more*. * ' The Brownie formed a class of beings, distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves. He was meagre, shaggy, and wild in his appearance. Thus, Cleland, in his satire against tbe Highlanders,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 478 pagina’s
...the Fairies, concerning whom the reader will find a long dissertation, in Volume Second. The Brownie formed a class of beings, distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves. He was meagre, shaggy, and wild in his appearance. Thus, Cleland, in his satire against the Highlanders,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pagina’s
...cell of viand's store : Ne'er was thy fonn beheld among thy mountain* more.* • - ' • ' The Brownie formed a class of beings, distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves, He was meagre, shaggy, and wild in his appearance. Thus, Clealand, hi his satire against, the Highlanders,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 pagina’s
...nightly cell of viands store: Ne'er was thy form beheld among their mountains more.* * • The Brownie formed a class of beings, distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves. He was meagre, shaggy, and wild in his appearance. Thus, Cleland, in his satire against the Highlanders,... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 pagina’s
...the Fairies, concerning whom the reader will find a long dissertation in Volume Second. The Brownie formed a class of beings, distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves. He was meagre, shaggy, and wild in his appearance. Thus Cleland, in his satire against the Highlanders,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 534 pagina’s
...the Fairies, concerning whom the reader will find a long dissertation in Volume Second. The Brownie formed a class of beings, distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves. He was meagre, shaggy, and wild in his appearance. Thus Cleland, in his satire against the Highlanders,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 532 pagina’s
...the Fairies, concerning whom the reader will find a long dissertation in Volume Second. The Brownie formed a class of beings, distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves. He was meagre, shaggy, and wild in his appearance. Thus Cleland, in his satire against the Highlander... | |
 | 1823 - 494 pagina’s
...enveloped in a half shade, exhibited a gx-uuine scene of the Arabian Nights. THE BROWNIES. The Tîrownies formed a class of beings, distinct in habit and disposition...were meagre, shaggy, and wild in their appearance. Thus Cleland, in bis satire against the Highlanders, compares them to " Faunes, or brownies, if ye... | |
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The Brownie formed a class of beings, distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves. He was meagre, shaggy, and wild in his appearance. Thus Cleland, in his satire against the Highlanders, compares them to " Faunes, or Brownies,... 
