| Thomas Bond - East Looe (England) - 1823 - 360 pages
...wet weather ; The North wind, wet and cold together. The West wind always brings us rain ; The East wind blows it back again. If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet ; If the sun should set in grey. The next will be a rainy day. On the 27th of May, 1792, about... | |
| Books - 1836 - 636 pages
...elsewhere, he felt quite sure it must be raining at Tavistock." A versifier has also libelled the place in the following lines : — " The west wind always...the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be xvet ; If the sun should set in grey, The next will be a rainy day." Without denying this humidity,... | |
| 1836 - 646 pages
...elsewhere, he felt quite sure it must be raining at Tavistock." A versifier has also libelled the place in the following lines :— " The west wind always...the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet; If the sun should set in grey, The next will be a rainy day." Without denying this humidity,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1837 - 590 pages
...so well contented with his position, as Mrs. Bray, has thus described the Devonshire climate : — ' The west wind always brings wet weather, The east...wind surely brings us rain, The north wind blows it buck again. If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet ; I f the sun should set... | |
| 1839 - 444 pages
...tbs other was charged— Willt, on Circumstantial E POETIC DESCRIPTION OF THE DEVONSHIRE C LI MAT I. The west wind always brings wet weather, The east...the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet; If the sun should set in gray, The next will be a rainy day. THE DUMB MADE TO SPEAK. "In the... | |
| Ballads, English - 1844 - 858 pages
...brings wet weather, The north wind wet and cold together ; The west wind always brings us rain, The east wind blows it back again. If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet ; If the sun should set in grey, The next will be a rainy day. A west wind and an honest man... | |
| Moses Aaron Richardson - 1844 - 436 pages
...brings wet weather, The north wind wet and cold together ; The west wind always brings us rain, The east wind blows it back again. If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet ; If the sun should set in grey, The next will bo a rainy day. A west wind and an honest man... | |
| 1844 - 836 pages
...entertaining letters we find the following effusion of a Devonshire poet : — The West wind always bring* wet weather, The East wind wet and cold together,...us rain, The North wind blows it back again. If the Bun in red should Get, The next day surely will be wet ; If the nm should wt in gray, The next will... | |
| Robert Chambers - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1847 - 372 pages
...of some unhappy scion of the house of Megrim. A Glasgow friend says it would answer for Greenock — The west wind always brings wet weather ; The east...the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet ; If the sun should set in gray, The next will be a rainy day. After all, let us console ourselves... | |
| Sir James Edward Alexander - Acadia - 1849 - 390 pages
...the autumn what is alleged against the weather of soft and beautiful Devonshire; first of the wind, " The west wind always brings wet weather. The east...brings us rain, The north wind blows it back again." Then of the sun, " If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet VOL. II. P If the... | |
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