 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
 | 1824 - 486 pages
...misfortunes of the world, and the dissipation of her help-mate, and often, when Tam " Was gettin' fu' and unco happy," she sat at home, " Gathering her...brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep itwarm." She, like too many in that district at that time, was very superstitious. Thomas took her... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...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' Shatter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pages
...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 town... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 320 pages
...at home, " Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm." VOL. I. M She, like too many in that district at that time,...side, and usually arrested her " lighthorse gallop of clish-maclaver" by some specious story of ghost or hobgoblin adventures, with which he had been detained.... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 320 pages
...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...gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm." VOL. I. M She, like too many in that district at that time,, was very superstitious. Thomas took her... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 328 pages
...misfortunes of the world, and the dissipation of her help-mate ; and often, when Tam " Was gettin' fu' and unco happy," she sat at home, " Gathering her...gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep It warm." VOL. I. M She, like too many in that district at that time, was very superstitious. Thomas took her... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pages
...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... | |
 | 1829 - 832 pages
...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." Why, the two passages, prose and verse, represent exactly the two different ways in which a sensible... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1830 - 50 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, H 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... | |
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