Books written by Andrew Lang

World Trade Law after Neoliberalism: Reimagining the Global Economic Order

... Uppsala,Sweden 1999) Mehta, P, and Davison, A,Trading up: The GATT agreement and developing countries (International Organisation of Consumers Unions, London1993) Meyer, WH,'Human Rights andMNC's: Theory VersusQuantitative Analysis' ...

The Compleat Angler

And she sung Frank Davison's song, which he made forty years ago; and all the others of the company joined to sing the burthen with her. The ditty was this; but first the burthen: Here's scraps enough to serve to-day.

The History Of Scotland – Volume 1: From The Romans to Mary of Guise

Now came the terrible and, hitherto, almost inexplicable disaster of Solway Moss. It is interesting to compare the brilliant description of Mr. Froude (who paints over the canvas of Knox) with the plain contemporary report, which, ...

The Blue Poetry Book (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

I long woo'd your daughter, my suit you denied ;— Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide; — And now am I come with this lost Love of mine To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland more ...

History of English Literature from Beowulf to Swinburne

He gravely repeats and embellishes Knox's mythical account of the disaster of Solway Moss, but probably the English despatches of the day were not accessible to him. How much of the interest of his book would survive if it were reduced ...

The History Of Scotland - Volume 8: From The Scots Invasion To The Restoration

... the Scots of Ulster were to be massacred; Charles's forces were to sail to the Solway, Nithsdale with the Maxwells was to join them; the Macdonalds, under young Colkitto ("left handed" or " ambidextrous "Col, of the Islay family), ...

Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy

The Earl of Fife, withouten strife, He bound him over Solway; The great would ever together ride That race they may rue for aye. III. Over Hoppertop hill they came in, And so down by Rodcliff crag, Upon Green Linton they lighted down, ...

Red Book of Animal Stories

When the thaw came the rivers rose so suddenly that many of the poor weakened creatures could not get out of the way in time, and there is a curious record of the 'throw up' in the Solway which I quote here: '1840 sheep, 9 black cattle, ...

The History Of Scotland – Volume 4: From the massacre of Glencoe to the end of Jacobitism

Merchants, whether what we now call merchants or, as in Scots phrase, small shopkeepers, "plunged" all over the Lowlands. The Celt did not invest, though Macaulay says that " from the Pentland Firth to the Solway Firth every man who had ...

History of English Literature

He gravely repeats and embellishes Knox's mythical account of the disaster of Solway Moss, but probably the English despatches of the day were not accessible to him. How much of the interest of his book would survive if it were reduced ...

Scottish Border Country

The encounter , such as it was , took place not so much in Solway Moss , however , as over towards Arthuret . The Scots — a strong raiding army , but disorganised , and in a state of incipient mutiny against their newly - appointed ...

The Blue Fairy Book

, "The Blue Mountains"), and the rest are listed with brief notes. When this is "Grimm" or "Madame d'Aulnoy" or attributed to a specific collection, the stories can be tracked down, but other notes are less helpful.

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Magic and Religion: Recent Years Have Brought Rich Additions to the Materials for the Study of Early Religion, Ritual, Magic,...

The first essay in this collection, ''Science and Superstition,'' points out the danger of allowing too ingenious and imaginative hypotheses to lead captive our science.As, like others, I have not long since advanced a provisional theory of ...