 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 418 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...mounts his beast jn ; And sic a night he taks the road in, • i As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last ; The rattling...bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The deilhad business on his hand. • '"• • .• 'I Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...in, As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last ; The rattling showers rose on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness...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... | |
 | 1824 - 486 pages
...this might give rise to these admirable lines of that bard, about to be ushered into the world : — " That night a child might understand The deil had business on his hand." It was a little before the now pensive and thoughtful Burns was given to understand that a son was... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...this might give rise to these admirable lines of that bard, about to be ushered into the world : — " That night a child might understand The deil had business on his hand." It was a little before the now pensive and thoughtful Burns was given to iinilcrstiind that a son was... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...in. As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last ; The rattling showers rose on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness...might understand, The deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tarn skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...in, As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last ; The rattlin showers rose on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness...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, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...in, As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling showers rose on the blast; The speedy gleams the darkness...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,... | |
 | George Beattie - 1826 - 130 pages
...Bard came wildering across my brain : "The wind blew, as "iw.ul blawn its last; The rattling showers rose on the blast; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder liellow'd: That night, a child might understand, The deil bad business on his hand." When I attempted... | |
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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... 
