That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles holding fast his guid blue bonnet, Whiles... Poems: Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Página 203por Robert Burns - 1797Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Burns - 1896 - 284 páginas
...lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his gude blue... | |
| Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 páginas
...lang, the Ihundcr bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his gude blue... | |
| William Ernest Henley - 1896 - 414 páginas
...LIFT MY gam, I drink your health against the wall I 3. (old).— To walk. 1791. BURNS, Tarn O'Shanter. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never LIFTED LEG. To GET A LEG IN, verb. phr. (common). — To obtain one's confidence. 1891. N. GOULD, Double Event,... | |
| Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 páginas
...lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tarn skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles holding fast his glide... | |
| Gordon Stables - 1899 - 328 páginas
...weather was, Craig would be in it, wind or rain, hail or snow. Like Burns's Tam o' Shanter was Craig. " Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on through dub and mire, Despising wind and rain and fire, Whiles holding fast his gude blue... | |
| Seymour Eaton - 1899 - 338 páginas
...lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit ' on thro' dub and mire, - Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles ' holding fast his gude... | |
| John Ebenezer Bryant - 1899 - 328 páginas
...lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit ' on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles 2 holding fast his gude... | |
| William Clarke Robinson - 1900 - 220 páginas
...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, Tam skelpit on, thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his gude blue... | |
| 1900 - 668 páginas
...Shanter.' The route pursued by Tarn, on the memorable night of his adventure with the witches, when ' Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg — A better never lifted leg — He skelpit on through dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire — lay considerably westward... | |
| Robert Burns - 1901 - 444 páginas
...lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his gude blue... | |
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