 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1842 - 834 pages
...despises ! But to our tale. Ae market-night Tarn had got planted unco right, Fast by an ingle, bleeziug finely, Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely ; And...Souter Johnny, His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony : Tarn lo'ed him like a vera brither, They had been fou for weela thegither. The night drare on wi'... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 640 pages
...despises ! But to our tale. Ae market night, Tarn had got planted unco right ; Fast by an ingle, bleesing finely, Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely ; And at his elbow, souter Johnnie, His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony ; Tarn lo'ed him like a vera brither ; They had been fou... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...greet, To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises! But to our tale : Ae market night, Tam had...him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegitber. The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter, And aye the ale was growing better: The landlady... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...greet, To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd sage advises, The hushand frae the wife despises ! But to our tale : Ae market- night, TAM...ancient, trusty, drouthy crony ; TAM lo'ed him like a very brither ; They had been fou for weeks thegither. The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter;' And... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...greet, To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd sage advices, The hushand frae the wife despises ! But to our tale : Ae market night, Tam had got planted unco right ; Fast hy an ingle, hleezing finely, Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely : And at his elhow, souter Johnny,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...Her sons drink not by the hour or by the day, but by the week, — witness Souter Johnny : — " Tarn lo'ed him like a vera brither, They had been fou for weeks thegither." Swallowing no thin washy potation, but a strong overproof spirit, with a smack of smoke — and " where... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...Her sons drink not by the hour or by the day, but by the week, — witness Souter Johnny : — " Tain lo'ed him like a vera brither, They had been fou for weeks thegither." Swallowing no thin washy potation, but a strong overproof spirit, with a smack of smoke — and " where... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1845 - 480 pages
...stretch of imagination to believe it the one alluded to in the former anecdote, and wkn we got planted " Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, Wi reaming swats that drank divinely," we summoned before us Tam and his " drouthy crony," and once again it seemed as though 4' The landlady... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...besides. Her sons drink not by the hour or by the day, but by the week, — witness Souter Johnny : — " Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither, They had been fou for weeks thegither." Swallowing no thin washy potation, but a strong overproof spirit, with a smack of smoke — and " where... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 222 pages
...tradition. Before the tale begins then, we make, as it were, acquaintances of Tam and his wife Kate. " But to our tale : — Ae market night, Tam had got...bleezing finely, Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely ; An' at his elbow, Souter Johnny, His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony ; Tarn lo'ed him like a vera... | |
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Or catch'd wi' warlocks in the mirk By Alloway's auld haunted kirk. Ah, gentle dames ! it gars me greet To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises ! But to our tale : Ae market night, Tam had... 
