 | Robert Burns - 1887 - 400 страници
...swirl, Or thro' the mining outlet bocked, Down headlong hurl. List'ning, the doors an' winnocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or. silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle, Beneath a scar. Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1888 - 440 страници
...helplessly or involuntarily. Sprattle, to struggle or sprawl. Listening the doors and windows rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And through the drift deep-lairing sprattlc, Beneath a scaur. —BURNS : A Winter... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1888 - 444 страници
...helplessly or involuntarily. Sprattle, to struggle or sprawl. Listening the doors and windows 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 scaur. —BURNS: A Winter... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1889 - 336 страници
...well follow this inimitable and touching description : — ' List'ning the doors an' winnocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And thro" the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle Beneath a scaur.' 1. 91. ' I cannot... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1889 - 316 страници
...him, he thinks of the ' ourie cattle' and ' silly sheep,' and their sufferings in the pitiless storm 1 I thought me 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,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1889 - 334 страници
...Or, thro' the mining outlet bocked, Down headlong hurl : List'ning the doors' an' winnocks' rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle 15 O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle Beneath a scaur. Ilk happing... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 412 страници
...says, " This is worth a whole volume of homilies on Mercy, for it is the voice of Mercy itself." " I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle Of wintry war, Or through the drift, deep-lairing sprattle Beneath a scaur. "Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | Robert Brown (F.S.A., Scot.) - 1893 - 408 страници
...to have come to him as a kind of inspiration. He says — " Listening the doors and 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 scaur. Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 620 страници
...Winter Night, when, as he sits by his fireside, and hears the storm roaring without, he says — " I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle ri 0' wintry war. Or thro' the drift, deep-lairing, sprattie, Beneath a scaur. . i:k happing... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1895 - 88 страници
...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,... | |
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