 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 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 mait), Meg, (A better never lifted leg,) Tain skelpit on thro' dub and mire,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1880 - 1024 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 Camlidior nivibns, tune cum ccciderc... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...the blast; The speedy gleams the darkness swallowed, 75 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—• 80 Tam skelpit 6 on thro' dub... | |
 | American poetry - 1920 - 1002 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, Tarn skelpit on through dub and mire,... | |
 | Ralph Knight - Literary Criticism - 1959 - 246 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 meare Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising... | |
 | England - 1819 - 788 pages
...like school-boys. We INVIDIAM GLORIA SUFERAVIT. THE SHEFHEBD S CALENDAR. ( Continued f romp, T5.) " That night a child might understand, The Deil had...at raising up imaginary evils, or magnifying those that exist ; and our's had made out a theory so fraught with misery and distress, that the poor things... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 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 — M) Tam skelpit on thro' dub and... | |
 | Reg McKay - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 212 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. The ponce! Coming up here with his airs and graces pretending to be super-normal like some missionary... | |
 | British Academy - Business & Economics - 2003 - 336 pages
...that he or she is in a familiar world of genre construction, the narrator's art and not the peasant's: That night, a child might understand, / The Deil had business on his hand' (1l. 77-8). Indeed, the Picturesque's role as 'a frame of mind, an aesthetic attitude involving man... | |
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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... 
