 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.-— Nae man can tether time or tide, The...The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last ; The rattling showers rose on the blast, The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd, Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide, The...And sic a night he taks the road in, As ne'er poor sinne. was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling showers rose on the blast,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The...abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattlin show'rs rose on the blast : The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep* and lang,... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1820 - 470 pages
...borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tarn maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 pages
...a Letter to GROSE, the Antiquary. See Censura Lileraria. That dreary hour he mounts his beast-in , And sic a night he taks the road in , As ne'er poor...abroad in. The wind blew as twad blawn its last, The rattlin show'rs rose on the blast : The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud , deep , and lang... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide —...• The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast in ; And sic a night he taks... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide — The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; • A That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast jn ; And... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The...Tam maun ride : That hour, o' night's black arch the key-staue, That dreary hour he mounts his beast in ; And sic a night he taks the road in, As ne'er... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm — Nae man can tether time or tide — The hour approaches Tarn maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm— Nae man can tether time or tide— The...The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling showers rose on the blast; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder... | |
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A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.-— Nae man can tether time or tide, The hour approaches, Tam maun ride ; That hour... 
