 | Robert Dale Owen - 1871 - 468 страници
...stanza : " But fare-ye-weel, auld Nickie-ben, 0 wad ye tak a thocht an men" ! Ye aiblins micht — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake. I'm wae to think upo' yon den, E'en for your sake." For those to whom the old dialect of Scotland is more or less of an unknown tongue,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 страници
...a'. ... But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-beu! O wad ye tak a thought an ' men' 1 Ye aiblins might—I dinna ken— Still hae a stake— I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake.'1 We see that he speaks to the devil as to an unfortunate comrade, a quarrelsome... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 страници
...warld a shog, ' M .1 il ruin'd a'. ... But, fare you weel, auld Kickie-beu ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — • Still hae a stake — I'm wac to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake.' 1 We see that he speaks to the devil as to an unfortunate... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1872 - 778 страници
...faith I he'll turn a corner jinkin'', An' cheat you yet. 21 But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben! 0 wad ye tak a thought and men'! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake-— 1 'm wae to think upo' yon den, E'en for your sake! ' Now, honest Hughoc, dinna fail ai To tell my... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1873 - 486 страници
...wished him out of his coal-hole. So " Fare you well, auld Nickie-ben I O wad ye tak a thought and men' I Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake...I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Even for your sake ! " 1830. A FEW WORDS ON ANGELS. AS we have said so much about Devils, we thought we could not complete... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1873 - 798 страници
...'Maist ruin'd a. " But, fare you weel, auld NicJde-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men1 ! Ye aibhns might — I dinna ken — • Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake !" Vol. iii. pp. 74 — 7C. The finest examples, however, of this simpla and unpretending... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1873 - 472 страници
...himself, and exclaim with poor Burns, But fare ye wecl, auIJ Niclde-bcn ! Oh ! wad ye tak a thought an' men ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upon yon den, Ev'n for your sake ! I need not say that these thoughts, which are here dilated, were... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1873 - 582 страници
...to him. The very Devil he cannot hate with right orthodoxy ! But fare you weel, auld Ntr.kie-hen ; O wad ye tak a thought and men* ! Ye aiblins might,...I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Even for your sake 1 He did not know, probably, that Sterne had been beforehand with him. "'He is the father of curses... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - 568 страници
...warld a shog, 'Maist ruin'd a'. ... But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake.' 1 We see that he speaks to the devil as to an unfortunate comrade, a quarrelsome... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1874 - 496 страници
...coal-hole. So " Fare you well, auld Nickie-ben 1 O wad ye tak a thought and men* I Ye aiblins might — 1 dinna ken — Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upo* yon den, Even for your sake 1 " 1830. A FEW WORDS ON ANGELS. AS we have said so much about Devils, we thought we could not complete... | |
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But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake : I'm wae to think upo... 
