 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 370 pages
...Or through the mining outlet bocked, Down headlong hurl. Listening, the doors an' winnocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And through the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scar. Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1838 - 476 pages
...plover,' the ' solitary curlew,' all are dear to him ; all live in this Earth along with him, and to all he is knit as in mysterious brotherhood. How touching...on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle 0' wintry war; Or thro' the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle, Beneath a scaur. Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...Or through the mining outlet bock'd, Down headlong hurl. Listening, the doors an' winnocks rattle, by impious pride ! I did not fear To tax you with this journey brattle 0' winter war, And through the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scar. Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 pages
...plover,' the ' solitary curlew,' all are dear to him ; all live in this Earth along with him, and to all he is knit as in mysterious brotherhood. How touching...on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' wintry war ; Or thro' the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle, Beneath a scaur. Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...plover," the " solitary curlew," all are dear to him ; all live in this Earth along with him, and to all he is knit as in mysterious brotherhood. How touching...on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' wintry war ; Or thro' the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle, Beneath a scaur. Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...plover," the " solitary curlew," are all dear to him ; all live in this Earth along with him, and to all he is knit as in mysterious brotherhood. How touching...sheep," and their sufferings in the pitiless storm ! i 3 I thought me on the ourie rattle, Or Billy sheep, wha bide this brattle O' wintry war ; Or tbto'... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 248 pages
...unfortunate, the erring, and the guilty of his own race? " List ' ning the doors an' winnocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, An' thro' the drift, deep-lairing spr&ttle, Beneath a scar. " Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 pages
...the simple. In a stormy winter night the poet says :— " List'ning the doors an' winnocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, An' thro' the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scar. Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1901 - 578 pages
...' NE D.' as an English word is of 1531 (cited sv 'Lagan"). List'ning the doors an' winnocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle U winter war. As regards the extract from Gavin Douglas, it may be noted that Jamieson's immediate... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 590 pages
...plover," the "solitary curlew.'* are all dear to him : all live in this Earth along with him, and to all he is knit as in mysterious brotherhood. How touching...sheep," and their sufferings in the pitiless storm ! I 3 I thought me on the curie rattle, Or >il!y sheep, wha bide this brattle O' wintry war; Or thro* the... | |
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