 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 266 pages
...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 bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The.deil * had business on his hand.... | |
 | Scottish uses - Scottish poetry - 1808 - 228 pages
...the road in, As ne'er poor sinner was 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, the thunder beliow'd : That night a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand.... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...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 bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...hour he mounts his beast in ; 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...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
...the road in, As ne'er poor sinner was 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, the thunder bellow'd ; That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 364 pages
...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...speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a ehild might understand, The deil had business on his hand.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...in, As ne'er poor sinne. 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 bellow'd: That night a child might understand, The Den hud business on his hand.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...the road in, As ne'er poor sinner was 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, the thunder bellow'd; That night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 pages
...hour he mounts his beast in ; 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...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.... | |
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twad blawn its last ; The rattling show'rs rose 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,... 
