 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 σελίδες
...these witches and warlocks are, and why the devil brought them here into Alloway-Kirk. True " This night a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand;" but that is not the question—the question is what business ? Was it a ball given him on the anniversary... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 σελίδες
...the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow' d ; Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The de'il had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tarn skelpit on thro' dub and mire,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 σελίδες
...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. Weal mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 746 σελίδες
...on the blast; The speedy gleams the darkness swallowed, Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellowed: That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on through dub and mire,... | |
 | John Strang - 1856 - 622 σελίδες
...rivulets, and scarce a lamp was able to withstand the extinguishing blast. To use the words of Burns— " That night a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand." And so it appeared to some of us, that the deil, if he had nothing worse to do, had at least been amusing... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 σελίδες
...on the Wast ; 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 gray mare Meg (A better never lifted leg) , Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 σελίδες
...these witches and warlocks are, and why the devil brought them here into Alloway Kirk. True, " This night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand ;" but that is not the question — the question is what business?. Was it a ball given him on the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 σελίδες
...these witches and warlocks are, and why the devil brought them here into Alloway Kirk. True, " This night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand ; " but that is not the question — the question is what business 2 Was it a ball given him on the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 σελίδες
...these witches and warlocks are, and why the devil brought them here into Alloway Kirk. True, " This night, a child might understand, The deil had business on his hand ;" but that is not the question — the question is what businees ? Was it a ball given him on the... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 316 σελίδες
...the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellow 'd: That night, a child might understand, The de'il had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tarn skelpit on thro' dub and mire,... | |
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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... 
