 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1863 - 446 pages
...with poor Burns, Rut fare ye weel, auld Nickie-ben ! Oh ! wad ye tak a thought an' men ! Ye aiblina might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upon you deu, Ev'n for your sake. I need not say that these thoughts, which are here dilated, were... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 328 pages
...on the Devil himself, and exclaim with poor Burns, " But fare ye weel, auld Nickie-ben ! 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... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1865 - 470 pages
...faith ! he'll turn a corner jinkin, An' cheat you yet. But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna...I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake ! THE DEATH' AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, THE A UTHOR'S ONL Y PET YOWE. An Unco Mournfrf Tale. As... | |
 | 1865 - 654 pages
...and we almost feel like adopting the lines of Burns : "But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna...Still hae a stake ; I'm wae to think upo' yon den, E'en for your sake !" But, as we said above, the poet is the poet, and not the historian. And we have... | |
 | William Honyman Gillespie - 1865 - 228 pages
...fell case of unmitigated misery. But, fare you weel, auld JSfickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought and men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake — I,m wac to think upo, yon den, Ev,N FOR TOUK SAKE ! t The power to feel for others, woes stopped not, however,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1866 - 356 pages
...! he'll turn a corner jinkin, An' cheat you yet. izo But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna...I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake ! THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE,* THE AUTHOR'S ONLY PET YOWE. AN 1JNCO MOTJKNF1T' TALE.... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 pages
...faith ! he'll turn a corner jinkin, An' cheat you yet. But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna...Still hae a stake — I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev n for your sake ! THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, THE AUTHOR'S ONLY PET YOWE. AN UNCO... | |
 | John Smythe Memes - 1868 - 406 pages
...ploughman-bard addresses the great adversary : O, wad ye tak a thought, an* men', Ye aiblins might — I dhm;i ken — Still hae a stake; I'm wae to think upo' yon den, E'en for your sate ! Between the statements of this letter, top, and the usual accounts of the Revolution,... | |
 | John Ford - 1869 - 442 pages
...humour has thrown him upon a kindred thought ; 1 ' But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ; O, wad ye tak a thought an' men', Ye aiblins might — I dinna...Still hae a stake : I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Even for your sake." Dignity and decorum, however, are all on the side of Nickie-ben. 7 stroy] ie destroy.... | |
 | John Ford - 1869 - 444 pages
...humour has thrown him upon a kindred thought ; ' ' But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ; O, wad ye talc a thought an' men', Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken...Still hae a stake : I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Even for your sake." Dignity and decorum, however, are all on the side of Nickie-ben. 7 stroy] ie destroy.... | |
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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' yon den, Ev'n for your sake ! THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, THE AUTHOR'S ONLY PET YOWE. 
