 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
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...Sheridan. Vol. ip 155. § Cf. SltLTOX. Paradise Lost. Cook iii. Line 496. ROBERT BURNS. 1759-1796. Where sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like...gathering storm, , Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. Tam ffShanter. His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony ; Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither — They had... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 264 pages
...the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, an' stiles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like...men and bonny lasses). O Tam, hadst thou but been sac wise As ta'en thy ain wife Kate's advice ! She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum, A blethering,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 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...Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonnie lasses). O Tam ! hadst thou but been sae wise As taen thy ain wife Kate's advice ! She tauld... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1866 - 356 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, 10 Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing...Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonie lasses). way-Kirk, as it was the burial-place of his father, and where he himself had a sort... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1866 - 320 pages
...her quivering beams, We frisk it near these crystal streams. B urns. TAM O' SHANTER. Our hame Where sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like...gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonnie lasses. Kings may be blest, but Tam... | |
 | Alfred Charles Garratt - 1866 - 1118 pages
...highly-electrified thunder cloud, requires but the point to draw the flash. She sits, like Tam O'Shanter's wife, — 'Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm," — f when, suddenly and unexpectedly, some word, sign, or gesture, or the failure of some word, sign,... | |
 | Henry Minton - Children - 1866 - 498 pages
...until they become, as it were, surcharged, and must give way. They sit like Tam O'Shanter's wife, — " Gathering her brows, like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath, to keep it warm." till some little thing gives the occasion, when off they go. Hysterical persons should nip all gloomy... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 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...storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth land honest Tain o' Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Aukl Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 264 pages
...the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, an' stiles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like...town surpasses For honest men and bonny lasses). O Tarn, hadst thou but been sae wise As ta'en thy ain wife Kate's advice ! She tauld thee weel thou was... | |
 | Mormons - 1897 - 478 pages
...Shanter, the hero of which, drinking at a tavern bar until late at night, while his wife is at home — "Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm — " finds himself assailed on the way home by a swarm of witches. His intense patriotism found expression... | |
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