 | Seymour Eaton - 1899 - 338 pagine
...spirit, Without his failin's : 'TwiM please me mair to see't and hear't Than stockit mailins." (m) "When fevers burn, or ague freezes, Rheumatics gnaw, or colic squeezes, Our neighbor's sympathy may ease us, Wi' pitying moan ; But thee — thou hell o' a' diseases, Aye mocks... | |
 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1900 - 490 pagine
...the fire the giglets keckle To see me loup, An', raving mad. I wish a heckle Were i' their doup! m. When fevers burn, or ague freezes, Rheumatics gnaw, or colic squeezes, Our neebors sympathise to ease us Wi' pitying moan ; But thee ! — thou hell o' a' diseases, They mock... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1902 - 516 pagine
...the fire the giglets keckle To see me loup ; An', raving mad, I wish a heckle Were i' their doup ! When fevers burn, or ague freezes, Rheumatics gnaw, or colic squeezes, Our neebors sympathize to ease us Wi' pitying moan ; But thee ! — thou hell o' a' diseases, They mock... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1920 - 484 pagine
...good rhetoric), though the tune is northern. But in which language does he write To the Toothache ? When fevers burn, or ague freezes, Rheumatics gnaw, or colic squeezes, Our neebors sympathise to ease us Wf pitying moan ; But thee I — thou hell o' a' diseases, They mock... | |
 | 1920 - 1016 pagine
...round the fire the giglets kcckle To see me loup; An', raving mad, I wish a heckle Were i' their doup! When fevers burn, or ague freezes, Rheumatics gnaw, or colic squeezes, Our neebors sympathize to ease us Wi' pitying moan; But thee! — thou hell o' a' diseases, They mock our... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1924 - 482 pagine
...good rhetoric), though the tune is northern. But in which language does he write To the Toothache ? When fevers burn, or ague freezes, Rheumatics gnaw, or colic squeezes, Our neebors sympathise to ease us Wi' pitying moan ; But thee ! — thou hell o' a' diseases, They mock... | |
 | Ralph Knight - 1959 - 246 pagine
...round the fire the giglets keckle To see me loup, An', ravin mad, I wish a heckle Were i' their doup! When fevers burn, or ague freezes, Rheumatics gnaw, or colic squeezes, Our neebors sympathise to ease us Wi' pitying moan; But thee!— thou hell o' a' diseases, They mock our... | |
 | 1879 - 658 pagine
...tormented with that disorder. One stanza will be sufficient to show the author's appreciation of it: "When fevers burn or ague freezes, Rheumatics gnaw, or colic squeezes, Our neighbor's sympathy may ease us, Wi' pitying moan ; But thee, thou hell o' a' diseases, Aye makes our... | |
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Wi' gnawing vengeance; Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang, Like racking engines... 
