 | Robert Dale Owen - 1871 - 468 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1873 - 798 Seiten
...'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 tenderness... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1873 - 472 Seiten
...on the Devil 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1873 - 486 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 Seiten
...ye weel, auld Nickie Ben, О wad ye tak" a thocht an' men', Ye aiblins micht — I dinna ken — Yet hae a stake ; I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake." As Shakespeare is the supreme name in this order of poets, the men of sympathy and of humor, Milton... | |
 | 1873 - 808 Seiten
...weel, auM Nictcie Ben, O wad ye talc' a thocht an' men', Ye aiblins micht — I clinna ken — Yet hae a stake ; I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake." As Shakespeare is the supreme name in this order of poets, the men of sympathy and of humor, Milton... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - 568 Seiten
...gied the infant 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...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 fellow, but fallen... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1925 - 136 Seiten
...I hear, is quite friendly to the Devil. The Duchess: 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! Miss Taylor: Most confusing. Walter Scott (moving from his book to MRS. STEWART)... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1926 - 734 Seiten
...fare-you-weel, auld Nickie-ben I 0 wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins* might — I dinna kenStill hae a stake : I'm wae to think upo' yon den, Ev'n for your sake 1 Scotch Drink.1 Gie him strong drink until he wink, That's sinking in despair ; An' liquor guid to... | |
 | Kenneth MacLeod - 1927 - 256 Seiten
...relenting spirit towards the traditional Enemy of Mankind ' : 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 ! But the bard's Celtic ancestors had already gone one better when they placed a little child on the... | |
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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. 
