 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....  Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature - Page 234edited by - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 266 pages
...Bousing, drinking. * Unco, very. s Na, not. 11 Slaps, gates, or breaches in fences. 13 Whare, where. 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 3 night did canter, (Auld4 Ayr wham5 ne'er... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 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 land honest Tam o' Shanter, As be frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr wham ne'er a town... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gath'ring 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 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, wham ne'er a... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 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 Tarn o' Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 554 pages
...reception at home, where sat his awful sister, for she would sit up far,iim, .... •• . ,. ;., , " Gathering her brows like gathering storm,,;... „.,••". Nursing her wrath to keep it warm." . , ,, back him he was- not BO much afraid. He even, when unusually elevated with punch, his favourite... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...mosses, waten, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hamc, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth found honest Tam o' Shunter,* As he frae Ayr, ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr whom ne'er... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 832 pages
...anticipation of the reckoning which awaited him at home, where, probably, sat his sulken dame — " Gathering her brows like gathering storm— Nursing her wrath to keep it warm ;" or whether it was regret for leaving so jovial and good-natured a party, I presume not to know ;... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 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... | |
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