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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... nature, and maintain a primitive independence, in spite of law and gospel, of county gaols and country magisrates. It is curious to see the obsinate adherence to the wild, unsettled habits of savage life transmitted from generation to ...
... nature, and maintain a primitive independence, in spite of law and gospel, of county gaols and country magisrates. It is curious to see the obsinate adherence to the wild, unsettled habits of savage life transmitted from generation to ...
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... natural Negroes, being also at a loss concerning the original of Gypsies and counterfeit Moors, observable in many parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Common opinion deriveth them from Egypt, and from thence they derive themselves ...
... natural Negroes, being also at a loss concerning the original of Gypsies and counterfeit Moors, observable in many parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Common opinion deriveth them from Egypt, and from thence they derive themselves ...
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... nature;—we with the habits of the beaver build fixed habitations; and they, like the deer range from pasure to pasure;—we with an insinc all our own cultivate arts; they content themselves with picking up our superfluities;—we make laws ...
... nature;—we with the habits of the beaver build fixed habitations; and they, like the deer range from pasure to pasure;—we with an insinc all our own cultivate arts; they content themselves with picking up our superfluities;—we make laws ...
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... , dumb only when they seal. Strange! that a creature rational, and cas In human mould, should brutalize by choice His nature; and though capable of arts, Ellis Wynne. By which the world might profit, and himself, Self-banished from.
... , dumb only when they seal. Strange! that a creature rational, and cas In human mould, should brutalize by choice His nature; and though capable of arts, Ellis Wynne. By which the world might profit, and himself, Self-banished from.
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... nature it sill declares, For bitter is all the fruit it bears. If the egg of the raven of noxious breed You place 'neath the paradise bird, and feed The splendid fowl upon its nes, With immortal figs, the food of the bles, And give it ...
... nature it sill declares, For bitter is all the fruit it bears. If the egg of the raven of noxious breed You place 'neath the paradise bird, and feed The splendid fowl upon its nes, With immortal figs, the food of the bles, And give it ...
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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