| Maria Nethercott - 1878 - 300 páginas
...to risk his life, rather than forfeit the smallest particle of his freedom of action. CHAPTER YT. " That night, a child might understand, The De'il had business on his hand." AFTER the Prestons had gone, Mr. Verney went to his study, Cecil lingered a while to speak to Catherine,... | |
| 1878 - 592 páginas
...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,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 páginas
...the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallowed ; Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellowed ; 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 through dub and mire,... | |
| 1920 - 1002 páginas
...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. Weel mounted on his grey mare Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tarn skelpit on through dub and mire,... | |
| Ralph Knight - 1959 - 246 páginas
...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. Weel mounted on his grey meare Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising... | |
| 1819 - 788 páginas
...like school-boys. We INVIDIAM GLORIA SUFERAVIT. THE SHEFHEBD S CALENDAR. ( Continued f romp, T5.) " That night a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand." ON reaching home, I found our women folk sitting in woful plight. It is well known how wonderfully... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...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 — M) Tam skelpit on thro' dub and... | |
| Reg McKay - 2001 - 212 páginas
...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. The ponce! Coming up here with his airs and graces pretending to be super-normal like some missionary... | |
| British Academy - 2003 - 336 páginas
...that he or she is in a familiar world of genre construction, the narrator's art and not the peasant's: That night, a child might understand, / The Deil had business on his hand' (1l. 77-8). Indeed, the Picturesque's role as 'a frame of mind, an aesthetic attitude involving man... | |
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