An' getting fou and unco happy, We think na on the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.... The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Page 961831Full view - About this book
| Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1801 - 266 lehte
...Bousing, drinking. * Unco, very. s Na, not. 11 Slaps, gates, or breaches in fences. 13 Whare, where. Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand ' honest Tarn O'Shanter, As he frae * Ayr ae 3 night did canter, (Auld4 Ayr wham5 ne'er... | |
| Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 lehte
...mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth land honest Tam o' Shanter, As be frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr wham ne'er a town... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 lehte
...waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gath'ring her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o' Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr wham ne'er a town... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 lehte
...mosses, waters, slaps, and stiles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o" Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter; (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 lehte
...mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tarn o' Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a... | |
| 1833 - 554 lehte
...reception at home, where sat his awful sister, for she would sit up far,iim, .... •• . ,. ;., , " Gathering her brows like gathering storm,,;... „.,••". Nursing her wrath to keep it warm." . , ,, back him he was- not BO much afraid. He even, when unusually elevated with punch, his favourite... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 lehte
...mosses, waten, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hamc, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth found honest Tam o' Shunter,* As he frae Ayr, ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr whom ne'er... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 274 lehte
...mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o' Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a... | |
| 1823 - 832 lehte
...anticipation of the reckoning which awaited him at home, where, probably, sat his sulken dame — " Gathering her brows like gathering storm— Nursing her wrath to keep it warm ;" or whether it was regret for leaving so jovial and good-natured a party, I presume not to know ;... | |
| Saturday night - 1824 - 968 lehte
...misfortunes of the world, and the dissipation of her help-mate, and often, when Tarn " Was gettin' fu" and unco happy," she sat at home, " Gathering her...took her by the weak side, and usually arrested her " light-horse-gallop of clish-maclaver" by some specious story of ghost or hobgoblin adventures, with... | |
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