 | James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 pages
...on the blast; The speedy gleams the darkness swalloweu: Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellowed; That night a child might understand The deil had business on his hand. Weel mountit on his gray mare, Mcir (A better never lifted leg), Tarn skelpit on thro' dnb and mire,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1876 - 626 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 De'il had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tarn skelpit on thro' dub and mire,... | |
 | P. F. Aiken - 1876 - 454 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 skelpit1 on thro' dub and mire,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 284 pages
...on the blast; The speedy gleams the darkness swallowed ; Lond, deep, and laug tha 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 through dub and... | |
 | 1876 - 306 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, — Tarn skelpit on through dub... | |
 | Foxhall Alexander Parker - 1876 - 312 pages
...the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallowed, Loud, deep and lang the thunders bellowed — That night a child might understand The Deil had business on his hand." And when day dawned the rocky beach of Euboea was strewn with wrecks, while four hundred Persian galleys... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 pages
...on the bla»t, 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. AVeel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire,... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 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 skelpit1 on thro' dub and mire,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 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,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1876 - 540 pages
...the temper and manners that prevailed there."—John Murdoch's Narrative. THE POET'S BIETH. [1759.] That night, a child might understand The Deil had business on his hand.—(P. 852, Vol. I.) " ROBERT BURNS, lawful son of William Burns, in Alloway, and Agnes Brown,... | |
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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... 
