Winter Evening Tales: Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of ScotlandEdinburgh University Press, 2002 - 601 pages "Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoughtful and deeply-felt response to the Highland Clearances. He gives vivid pictures of his experiences, including a narrow escape from a Navy press-gang, and a Sacrament day with one minister preaching in English and another in Gaelic. Hogg also explains aspects of Gaelic culture such as the waulking songs, and he describes the trade in kelp, lucrative to the landowners but back-breaking and ill-paid for the workers. Highland Journeys makes a refreshing contribution to our understanding of early nineteenth-century travel writing"--Publisher description. |
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Page 58
... dream . The adventures of the preceding night dawned on my recollection one by one , but these I regarded all as a dream for certain ; and it may well be deemed not a little extraordinary , that to this day , if my oath were taken , I ...
... dream . The adventures of the preceding night dawned on my recollection one by one , but these I regarded all as a dream for certain ; and it may well be deemed not a little extraordinary , that to this day , if my oath were taken , I ...
Page 247
... dream last night , as I hae nae had these twenty years ; and , I think , I never had sic a queer dream in my life . An ' then it was sae like your ain , too ; for it was about a hidden purse . " " Aye aye , man ! " said John , " Gude ...
... dream last night , as I hae nae had these twenty years ; and , I think , I never had sic a queer dream in my life . An ' then it was sae like your ain , too ; for it was about a hidden purse . " " Aye aye , man ! " said John , " Gude ...
Page 339
... dreams never bode good which do not leave grateful and pleasing impressions on the mind ; - mine must be bad , very bad indeed ! How comes it , William , that whenever we dream of the dead , they are always living ? " " God knows , Anna ...
... dreams never bode good which do not leave grateful and pleasing impressions on the mind ; - mine must be bad , very bad indeed ! How comes it , William , that whenever we dream of the dead , they are always living ? " " God knows , Anna ...
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