 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
 | 1837 - 226 pages
...enough to get it. But, methought, when one went home where, perhaps, sat some "sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows, like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm," it would appease her but little to state, that their joint earnings had been spent for ginger-cakes... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pages
...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, whom ne'er a town... | |
 | 1902 - 874 pages
...waters, mosses, slaps and styles, Which lie between us and our name, Whaur sits our sullen sulky dame; Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. In returning to the wholly humorous consideration of The mony serious sage advises The husband frae... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Where 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Where 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... | |
 | Charles Delucena Meigs - 1848 - 716 pages
...electrified thunder cloud, requires but the point to draw the flash. She sits, like Tarn O'Shanter's wife, "Gathering her brows, like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm ;" when, suddenly and unexpectedly, some word, sign or gesture, or the failure of some word, sign or... | |
 | John Saunders - 1848 - 434 pages
...even dreamed. In this mood of thought and feeling, he reached hame, Where 8at the sullen, sulky dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. Marion little guessed how prepared was her husband's mind to form a comparison to her disadvantage,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1849 - 906 pages
...monea, waters, slaps and stiles, That lie between us and our h л me, Whare tits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fiuid honest Тат о' S/iantcr, As be frae Ayr ae night did cmter, ( Auld Луг, wham... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and stiles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, A. Hart This truth fand honest Tarn O'Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, whom ne'er a... | |
 | Charles Delucena Meigs - 1851 - 734 pages
...electrified thunder cloud, requires but the point to draw the flash. She sits, like Tarn O'Shanter's wife, " Gathering her brows, like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm;" when, suddenly and unexpectedly, some word, sign, or gesture, or the failure of some word, sign, or... | |
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