 | Scottish uses - 1808 - 228 頁
...the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder beliow'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 an' mire,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 頁
...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 through dub and mire,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 頁
...the blast ; The 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. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising... | |
 | 1819 - 792 頁
...like school-boys. We IHVIDIAM GLOKIA SÜPEBAVIT. THE SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR. ( Continued from p. 75.) " That night a child might understand, The Deil had...at raising up imaginary evils, or magnifying those th»t exist ; and our'a had made out a 810 stances considero! There was not а sheep in the country... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 頁
...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, Despising... | |
 | 1819 - 792 頁
...great hero of antiquity, INVIDIAM GLORIA SUPERÁVIT. THE SHEPHERD 8 CALENDAS. (Continued from p. 1&.} " That night a child might understand, The Deil had business on his band." ON reaching home, I found our wom«n-felk sitting in woful plight. It is well known how wonderfully... | |
 | 1820 - 496 頁
...Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. " That night a child might understand The Deil had Dullness on hi* hand." ON reaching home, I found our women folk sitting...imaginary evils, or magnifying those that exist ; and our's had made out a theory so fraught with misery and distress, that the poor things were quite overwhelmed... | |
 | James Hogg - 1821 - 352 頁
...the visible heavens. Such a day and such a night may the eye of a shepherd never again behold! i I r CHAP. ii. " That night, a child might understand,...imaginary evils, or magnifying those that exist ; and our's had made out a theory so fraught with misery and distress, that the poor things were quite overwhelmed... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 頁
...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 leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 頁
...on the blast ; The speedy gleams the 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 grey mare Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising... | |
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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... 
