 | Bernard Marie Dupriez - 1991 - 572 trang
...provincialisms, expressions borrowed from local dialects, are not true peregrinisms. Ex: Wee, sleekit, cov/rin, tim'rous beastie, O what a panic's in thy breastie!...need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle! R. Burns, To a Mouse' R6: The successful use of peregrinisms or provincialisms in literature depends... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 trang
...EnRP; GN; PoLF; WBLP To a Mouse on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough 62 Wee, sleeket, cowran, e seen by Time's fell hand defaced 211 Then (1. 1-6) 63 The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley. An' lea'e us nought but grief an'... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 trang
...glance, I jingle at her. To a Mouse On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785 I Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a...in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty WT bickering brattle!' I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, Wi' murdering pattle!2 II I'm truly sorry... | |
 | Olive Ann Burns - 1994 - 330 trang
...read all those footnotes. I could do a pretty good job quoting "To a Daffodil" or "To a Mouse" — Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, o what a panic's in thy breastie — but that's hardly a love sonnet. If this Hugh Junior was so smart, why wasn't he in the Army? I... | |
 | Philip Hobsbaum - 1996 - 220 trang
...also make it a vehicle for quiet meditation, as in 'To a Mouse', which begins: Wee, sleekit, cow'rin1, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!...hasty Wi' bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin and chase thee, Wi' murd'ring pattle! ('Brattle' is 'squeaking', and a 'pattle' is a paddle or plough-staff.)... | |
 | John McRae - 1998 - 172 trang
...time: I knaws what maa'kes tha sa mad. Warn't I craazed fur the lasses mysen when I wur a lad? (xii) Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a...brattle! I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, Wi' murdering pattle! I'm truly sorry man's dominion Has broken Nature's social union, An' justifies that... | |
 | Sayre N. Greenfield - 1998 - 204 trang
...as socially and philosophically universal as one could ask: Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beaslie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start...brattle! I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, Wi' mwd'ringpattlel I'm truly sorry Man's dominion Has broken Nature's social union, An' justifies that... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 trang
...made to Mourn' O Death! the poor man's dearest friend. The kindest and the best! 1831 'To a Mouse' Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O what a...need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle! 1832 'To a Mouse' The best laid schemes o'mice an' men Gang aft a-gley. 1833 'A Red Red Rose' O, my... | |
 | Lewis Turco - 2000 - 356 trang
...than to modern English: To a Mouse, on Turning Her up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 178} 1 wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, Wi' murd'ring pattle! I'm truly sorry man's dominion Has broken Nature s social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor, earth-born... | |
 | Mary Low - 2003 - 228 trang
...nature plundered. — Leonardo Boff To a mouse On fuming up her nest with the plough November 1 78S Wee sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie O, what a panic's...brattle! I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee wi' murderin' pattle! I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken nature's social union, an' justifies that... | |
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