The Wind on the Heath - A Gypsy Anthology (Romany History Series)John Sampson This magnificent Gypsy anthology was first published in London 1930. It contains over 300 items of prose and verse gleaned from classical literature, folklore, history and true Gypsy life. It has long been considered unique in its field and is very hard to find in its first edition. We have now re-published this scarce book incorporating the original text and illustrations. The book's 380 pages are divided into 12 sections designed to bring to light the chief facets of Gypsy life. They have been chosen for their historical and anthropological interest and are supported with illustrations of the real Gypsy way of life, and yet the same wind blows over all on this Gypsy heath. Contents include: The Dark Race. - The Roaming Life. - Field and Sky. - Gypsies and Gentiles. - The Romany Chye. - Gypsy Children. - Sturt and Strife. - Black Arts. - A Gypsy Bestiary. - Egipte Speche. - Scholar Gypsies. - Envoy. Also included is a glossary of Romani words. This important book is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all with an interest in Gypsy ways. |
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... NIGHT PEACE Matthew Arnold John Masefield John Bunyan. III. FIELD. AND. SKY. Shakeeare John Keats Charles Dickens Mary R. Mitford Robert Louis Stevenson John Roberts John Bunyan George Meredith Richard Jefferies Eifion Wyn Sylveser Boswell ...
... NIGHT PEACE Matthew Arnold John Masefield John Bunyan. III. FIELD. AND. SKY. Shakeeare John Keats Charles Dickens Mary R. Mitford Robert Louis Stevenson John Roberts John Bunyan George Meredith Richard Jefferies Eifion Wyn Sylveser Boswell ...
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... night that we ply our true craft. Fame, honour, and ambition have no power over us; we are therefore free from that base servitude in which mos of the Great are illusrious and unhappy, nay rather, very slaves. But our Palaces are the ...
... night that we ply our true craft. Fame, honour, and ambition have no power over us; we are therefore free from that base servitude in which mos of the Great are illusrious and unhappy, nay rather, very slaves. But our Palaces are the ...
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... night that seals on till the subbles alone are light among the fields—the gipsy sleeps in his tent on mother earth; it is, you see, primeval man with primeval nature. The. Youthful. Ruskin. speaks. BUT, mids the wandering tribe, no ...
... night that seals on till the subbles alone are light among the fields—the gipsy sleeps in his tent on mother earth; it is, you see, primeval man with primeval nature. The. Youthful. Ruskin. speaks. BUT, mids the wandering tribe, no ...
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... nights together, but wanders up and downe Heaven, like an Anticke, so these changeablesuffe-companions never tary one day in a place, but are the only base Ronnagats upon earth. And as in the Moone there is a man, that never sirres ...
... nights together, but wanders up and downe Heaven, like an Anticke, so these changeablesuffe-companions never tary one day in a place, but are the only base Ronnagats upon earth. And as in the Moone there is a man, that never sirres ...
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... night with open yë, (So priketh hem nature in hir corages): Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages. Why in one place tarry we? COME, come away! the spring, By every bird that can but sing Or chirp a note, doth now invite Us forth to ...
... night with open yë, (So priketh hem nature in hir corages): Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages. Why in one place tarry we? COME, come away! the spring, By every bird that can but sing Or chirp a note, doth now invite Us forth to ...
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Common terms and phrases
almos Arthur Symons Aunt Rodi beautiful bebee behold birds brother camp chap Charles Godfrey Leland child cuckoo dance dark disant donkey earth Egyptian English Gypsies eyes face father fire firs fortune Francis Hindes Groome gentleman George Borrow George Meredith Gilderoy Gipsy Gipsy’s girl gorgios grass GYPSY LADDIE Gypsy Song hair hand hath heard Hedgehog horse Jasper John John Bunyan King lady language Lavengro Leland lisen live looked Lord man’s maser mother mysery never night o’er Petulengro Poems poor quesion race road Romany Rye round sars siés sill sing siser sleep sood sory srange sranger sream sweet tell tent thee Theodore Watts-Dunton there’s things thou art thought tree undersand unto Ursula vagabond W. H. Hudson wander wild William Hazlitt William Wordsworth wind woman wood words Wordsworth young