 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...blawn its last ; The rattling show'rs rose 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 pages
...'twad blawn its last; The rattling show'rs rose 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... | |
 | William Stevenson - 1882 - 354 pages
...'twad blawn its last; The rattling showers rose on the blast; The speedy gleam the darkness swallow'd; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder bellow'd; That night, a child might understand The de'il had business on his hand." About half a mile from Burns' cottage, we reach " Allo\vay's... | |
 | 1883 - 172 pages
...'twad blawn its last; The rattling showers rose 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 gray mare, Meg, A better never lifted... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 458 pages
...blawn its last; The rattling showers rose 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 290 pages
...blawn its last ; The rattling showers rose 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 gray meare Meg, A better never lifted... | |
 | 1885 - 686 pages
...blawn its last ; The rattling show'rs rose 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 gray mare, Meg, 1 frothing ale.... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...'twad blawn its last; The rattling show'rs rose on the blast; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd: view; He read it on that niglu. The morrow proved it true. 25 30 H understand, The De il had business on his hand. Tam skelpit (3) on thro' dub (4) an' mire, Despising... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1886 - 468 pages
...blawn its last ; The rattling showers rose 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 gray meare Meg, A better never lifted... | |
 | Thomas Hutchinson - 1887 - 74 pages
...blawn its last ; The rattlin' showers rose on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallowed, Loud, deep a-nd lang the thunder bellow'd : That night a child might understand, The de'il had business on his hand. To the incidents of his birth Burns funnily refers... | |
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twad blawn its last; The rattling show'rs rose 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 de'il had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare,... 
