 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...'twad blann its last ; The rattling show'rs rose on the blast; The speejy gleams the darkness swallowM; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder bellow'd; That night, a child might understand, The Dell had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better, never lifted leg, Tarn... | |
 | John Galt - Canada - 1833 - 412 pages
...the night a terrible storm came on, " The wind blew, as 't wad blawn its last, The rattling showers rose on the blast, The speedy gleams the darkness...might understand The de'il had business on his hand." Next morning it was still so stormy, that the master of the packet called to inform me that he durst... | |
 | John Galt - Canada - 1833 - 416 pages
...the night a terrible storm came on, " The wind blew, as 't wad blawn its last, The rattling showers rose on the blast, The speedy gleams the darkness...might understand The de'il had business on his hand." Next morning it was still so stormy, that the master of the packet called to inform me that he durst... | |
 | John Galt - Novelists, English - 1833 - 228 pages
...the night a terrible storm came on, " The wind blew, as 't wad blow its la?t, The rattling showers rose on the blast, The speedy gleams the darkness...thunder bellow'd; That night a child might understand Thede(il had business on his band.'' Next morning it was still so stormy, that the master of the packet... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 356 pages
...hour he mounts his beast in ; 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...might understand, The de'il 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 236 pages
...he mounts tiis beast in ; 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...darkness swallow'd; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder beltow'd: Tlmt niuht, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand, Wcel mounted on... | |
 | 1835 - 522 pages
...on the blast, The speedy gleams the darkness swallowed ; Loud, deep, and long, the thunder bellowed. That night a child might understand, The de'il had business on his hand." The old doors chattered upon their rusty hinges, and the strong window frames suniud to sob beneath... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...he mounts his beast in ; And sip a nigJit he taks the road in, As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last ; The rattling...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,'... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...hour he mounts his beast in ; 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...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... | |
 | James Hogg - Scotland - 1837 - 390 pages
...visible heavens. Such a day and such a night may the eye of a shepherd never again behold. CHAP. II. " That night a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand." ON reaching home, I found our women folk sitting in woful plight. It is well known how wonderfully... | |
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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... 
