 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1801 - 266 pages
...night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast in ; And sic ' a night he tacks * the road 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 swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pages
...approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast in -. And sic a night he taks the road in, As...The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last ; The rattling showers rose on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd , Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder... | |
 | Scottish uses - 1808 - 228 pages
...ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the koy-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast in ; An' sic a night he taks the road in, As ne'er poor sinner...abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last ; The rattlin show'rs rose on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast in ; And sic a night he taks the road in, As...speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd; Loud, deep, and lung, the thunder bellow'd : That night, "a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - 444 pages
...approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast in; And sic a night he taks the road in, As...abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattlin show'rs rose on the blast : The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the key stanc, That dreary hour he mounts his beast in j And sic a night he taks the road in, As ne'er poor sinner vas abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last, The ruttlin show'rs rose on the blast; The speedy... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1815 - 364 pages
...That hour, o' night's blaek areh the key-stanef . That dreary hour he mounts his beast in ; And sie a night he taks the road in, As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blown its last ; The rattling show'rs rose on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 pages
...approaches, Tam maun ride; That hour o' night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast in, And sic a night he taks the road in, As ne'er poor sinne. was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling showers rose on the blast,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pages
...approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast in ; And sic a night he taks the road in, As...abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattlin show'rs rose on the blast : The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep* and lang,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1820 - 470 pages
...approaches Tarn maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast in ; And sic a night he taks the road in, As...poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawu its last ; The rattling show'rs rose on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd... | |
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Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o... 
