 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...  Saturday night - Page 77by Saturday night - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 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 skelpit on thro' dub and mire,'... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 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 deil had business on his hand. Wecl mounted on his gray marc Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on through dub and mire,... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 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), Tarn skelpitc on thro' dub and mire,... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...the blast ; The speedy gleams that 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 skelpit on tbro' dub and mire, Despising... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 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 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, Despising... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 266 pages
...these witches and warlocks are, and why the devil brought them here into Alloway-Kirk. True " This night a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand;" but that is not the question—the question is what business? Was it a ball given him on the anniversary... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 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 De'il had business on his hand." How the awfulness of the tempest is heightened, by connecting it in the two last lines with the mystery... | |
 | 1850 - 758 pages
...in the words of Burns, — An' sic a night he tak's the road in, As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. That night a child might understand The de'il had business on his hand. Before I had time almost to know where I was, the overseer had me stripped of my saturated garments... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 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 deil had business on his baud. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 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 Deil had business on his hand Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg, — A better never lifted leg, — Tam skelpit on thro' dub and... | |
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