| Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pages
...the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd , Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on through dub and mire,... | |
| Scottish uses - 1808 - 228 pages
...the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder beliow'd : That night a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. AVeel mounted on his grey mare^ Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub an' mire,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd; Loud, deep, and lung, the thunder bellow'd : That night, "a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising... | |
| 1819 - 792 pages
...like school-boys. We IHVIDIAM GLOKIA SÜPEBAVIT. THE SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR. ( Continued from p. 75.) " That night a child might understand, The Deil had...at raising up imaginary evils, or magnifying those th»t exist ; and our'a had made out a 810 stances considero! There was not а sheep in the country... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pages
...the blast : The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep* and lang, the thunder bellow'd; That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising... | |
| 1819 - 792 pages
...great hero of antiquity, INVIDIAM GLORIA SUPERÁVIT. THE SHEPHERD 8 CALENDAS. (Continued from p. 1&.} " That night a child might understand, The Deil had business on his band." ON reaching home, I found our wom«n-felk sitting in woful plight. It is well known how wonderfully... | |
| James Hogg - 1822 - 1216 pages
...on the blast ; The speedy gleam the darkness swallowed, Loud, deep, and lung the thunder hellowed ; That night a child might understand The deil had business on his hand '. Tom o' Shunter. LONG was it before any of the astonished spectators opened their lips. The shock... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 pages
...on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder bellowM: That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising... | |
| sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 pages
...blast : The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud , deep , and lang , the thunder bellow'd , That night , a child might understand , The deil had business on his hand. , « Before him Doon pours all his floods ; The doubling storm roars through the woods ! The lightnings... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 274 pages
...on the blast; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellow'd: That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising... | |
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