 | Bards and bardism - 1765 - 416 pages
...the ancient Scots, that a ghoft was heard {hrieking near the place where a death was to happen foon after. The accounts given, to this day, among the...this extraordinary matter, are very poetical. The ghoft comes mounted on a meteor, and furrounds twice or thrice the place deftined for the perfon to... | |
 | Poetry - 1773 - 432 pages
...the ancient Scots, that a ghoij was heard fhrieking near the place where a death was to happen foon after. The accounts given, to this day, among the vulgar, of this extraordinary matter, are very poetlcal. The ghoft comes mounted on a meteor, and furrounds twice or thrice the place deftined for... | |
 | Celts - 1784 - 432 pages
...Scots, that a ghoft was heard fhrieking near the place where a death was to happen foon after. Ttie accounts given, to this day, among the vulgar, of this extraordinary matter, are very poetical. The ghoft comes mounted on a meteor, and furrounds twice or thrice the place deftined for the perfon to... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1790 - 322 pages
...the ancient Scots, that a ghoft was heard fhrieking near the place where a death was to happen foon after. The accounts given, to this day, among the...this extraordinary matter, are very poetical. The gfcoft comes mounted on a meteor, and furrounds twice or thrice the place deftined for the perfon to... | |
 | Ossian - 1790 - 446 pages
...clouds : And far diftant, in the dark filence of Lena, the feeble voices of death were faintly heard. to this day, among the vulgar, of this extraordinary matter, are very poetical. The ghoft: comes mounted on a meteor, and furrounds twice or thrice the place deftined for the perfon to... | |
 | Ossian - 1801 - 344 pages
...the ancient Scots, (hat a ghoft was heard fhrieking near the place where a death -was to happen foon after. The accounts given, to this day, among the vulgar, of this extraordinary Matter, are verypoetical. The ghoft comes mounted on a meteor , and lurrounds twice or thrice the place deftined... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 390 pages
...of the ancient Scots, that a ghost was heard shrieking near the place where a death was to hap-- pen soon after. The accounts given, to this day, among...this extraordinary matter, are very poetical. The gliost comes mounted on a meteor, and surrounds twice or thrice the place destined for the person to... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 364 pages
...clouds : And far distant, in the dark silence of Lena, the feeble voices of death were faintly heard. * It was long the opinion of the ancient Scots, that...the place destined for the person to die ; and then goei along the road through which the funeral is to pass, shrieking at intervals ; at hi-t, the meteor... | |
 | Hugh Campbell - Celts - 1822 - 416 pages
...the lately dead were near, • The Isle of Sky, of which Cuthullin's father was King or Chief. C. / t It was long the opinion of the ancient Scots, that...mounted on a meteor, and surrounds twice or thrice a place destined for the person to die ; and then goes along the road through which the funeral is... | |
 | George Grant - Knowledge and learning - 1849 - 328 pages
...sure forerunners of death. " The account," says Mr. M'Pherson, " given to this day by the ignorant, is very poetical. The ghost comes mounted on a meteor, and surrounds twice or thrice the house destined for the person to die in, and then goes along the road through which the burial is to... | |
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The ghoft comes mounted on a meteor, and furrounds twice or thrice the place deftined for the perfon to die; and then goes along the road through which the funeral is to pafs, fhrieking at intervals; at laft, the meteor and ghoft difappear above the burial... 