 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...  Robert Burns: A Memoir - Page 52by James White - 1859 - 100 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - Europe - 1827 - 550 pages
...being busy with his own thoughts, while contemplating the scene. Notwitstanding Burns' eulogy on " Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonny lasses," it presents few attractions to the eye of a traveller. It has a population of 10,000, and a trade to... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - 544 pages
...being busy with his own thoughts, while contemplating the scene. Notwitstanding Burns' eulogy on " Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonny lasses," it presents few attractions to the eye of a traveller. It has a population of 10,000, and a trade to... | |
 | David Landsborough - 1828 - 194 pages
...Lords of the deep, sport in their scaly pride J . Thence float the clouds, raised by the solar ray, * " Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonny lasses." — BURNS. t Genesis, chap. i. 9. t Job xli — " Leviathan — his scales are his pride." Soon to... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 832 pages
...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." Why, the two passages, prose and verse, represent exactly the two different ways in which a sensible... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1830 - 50 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, H 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 town surpasses For honest... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and stiles, That lie between us and our liame, \Vharcsits our sulky sullen dame. Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. Tliis truth fand honest Tom o' Sltanlar, A» ho frae Ayr, ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr whom ne'er... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...waters, slat*, and stiles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Catherine her brows like gathering storm Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tarn o' Shanier, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, lAuld Ayr whom ne'er a town surpasses, For honest... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pages
...dissipation of her helpmate ; and often, when Tarn " Was gettin1 fu1 and unco happy," she sat at home, " Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm." She, like too many in that district at that time, was very superstitious. Thomas took her by the weak... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...That lie Iwtweeu us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame Gath'ring her brows like gath'ring storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tarn O' Stumter, As he frae Ayr ae night did eanter (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest... | |
 | 1833 - 250 pages
...before they were fortunate enough to get it. But, methought, when one went home where, perhaps, sat some "sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows, like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm," it would appease her but little to state, that their joint earnings had been spent for ginger-cakes... | |
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