 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 440 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,... | |
 | Peter Mackenzie - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1865 - 664 pages
...10 on Wednesday evening; it was a tremendous wet afternoon in Glasgow—it rained in torrents,—- " That night a child might understand, The de'il had business on his hand." And when the farther news of the battle reached. London by special express, two days afterwards, Lord... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1865 - 336 pages
...on the blast; The speedy gleams the darkness swallowed ; Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellowed : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg, (A better never lifted leg,) 1 Candidior nivibus, tune cum cecidere... | |
 | 1865 - 344 pages
...on the blast; The speedy gleams the darkness swallowed ; Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellowed: That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg, (A better never lifted leg,) l Candidior nivibus, tune cum cecidere... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1865 - 470 pages
...as the devil would choose to take the air in' being, for instance, the suggestion of the couplet — That night, a child might understand The Deil had business on his hand. It is pleasant to know that Burns thought well of 'Tarn o' Shanter.' page line To Mrs. Dunlop he wrote... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 264 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 through dub and mire,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1866 - 356 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, so Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallowed ; Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellowed ; That night a child might understand The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg (A better never lifted leg), Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire,... | |
 | Humorous poetry - 1867 - 530 pages
...gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder bellow'd : '95 Roar. 3 Loads. 1 Such. 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 skelpit1 on through dub and mire,... | |
 | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - 1867 - 288 pages
...speak comfortably to that family, over whose pretty home had gathered so awful a storm. CHAPTER X. "That night a child might understand The de'il had business on his hand." I ENDED my last chapter with mention of a metaphoric storm ; but a literal storm broke over the city... | |
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And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling... 
