The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter; And ay the ale was growing better: The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours, secret, sweet, and precious: The souter tauld his queerest stories; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus: The storm without... Flowers for All Seasons - Seite 158von John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 312 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 Seiten
...fou for weeks thegither. The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter; And ay the ale was growing better: The landlady and Tam grew gracious. Wi' favours, secret, sweet, and precious : The souter3 tauld his queerest stories ; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus : The storm without might... | |
| P. F. Aiken - 1876 - 454 Seiten
...fou for weeks thegither. The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter; And ay the ale was growing better: The landlady and Tam grew gracious. Wi' favours, secret, sweet, and precious : The souter3 tauld his queerest stories ; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus : The storm without might... | |
| Alexander Wallace - 1876 - 220 Seiten
...setting the table in a roar." Many were the meetings, therefore, in the course of a week, at which " The souter tauld his queerest stories, The landlord's laugh was ready chorus." As a necessary result, business came to be neglected, and the public-house had far more attractions... | |
| Robert Burns - 1880 - 1024 Seiten
...weeks thegiiher! The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter, ** And aye the ale was growing better ; The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours secret,...queerest stories, The landlord's laugh was ready chorus; The storm without might rah- and rustle — Tam didna mind the storm a whistle. TASl O' SI1ANTER. 263... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 Seiten
...weeks thegither ! - 3 The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter, 45 And aye the ale was growing better: The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours secret,...queerest stories, The landlord's laugh was ready chorus : 50 IQwn. 2 Told aWell. 4Worthless fellow. aNonsense-talking. «Id!e gossiping fellow. 7 Each. 3 Quantity... | |
| Robert Burns - 1877 - 116 Seiten
...The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter ; And ay the ale was growing better : The landlady and Tarn grew gracious, Wi' favours, secret, sweet, and precious...queerest stories ; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus : The storm without might rair and rustle, Tarn did na mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 Seiten
...and clatter, And aye the ale was growing better ; The landlady and Tarn grew gracious, AVi' favors secret, sweet, and precious ; The souter tauld his...queerest stories ; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus ; The storm without might rair and rustle, Tarn did na inind the storm a whistle. Care, Iliad to see... | |
| 1877 - 362 Seiten
...confounded, was the «HACK OF GOD to man at length manifested. — R. Huno, Hermans, l808. Gracious. — The landlady and Tam grew GRACIOUS, Wi' favours secret, sweet, and precious. — BURNS, Tain ff Slumter. Grateful. — A GRATEFUL mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at ouce... | |
| Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 Seiten
...for weeks thegither. The night drave on wi' sangs an' clatter ; And aye the ale was growing better : The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours, secret,...queerest stories : The landlord's laugh was ready chorus : The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whittle. Care, mad to see a... | |
| Horatio King - 1878 - 428 Seiten
...fou for weeks thegither. The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter; And ay the ale was growing better: The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours secret,...queerest stories: The landlord's laugh was ready chorus: The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whistle." Hard by are "the banks... | |
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