 | 1836 - Страниц: 636
...must be raining at Tavistock." A versifier has also libelled the place in the following lines : — " The west wind always brings wet weather, The east...brings us rain, The north wind blows it back again. If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be xvet ; If the sun should set in grey, The... | |
 | 1836 - Страниц: 646
...must be raining at Tavistock." A versifier has also libelled the place in the following lines :— " The west wind always brings wet weather, The east...brings us rain, The north wind blows it back again. If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet; If the sun should set in grey, The next... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - Страниц: 590
...so well contented with his position, as Mrs. Bray, has thus described the Devonshire climate : — ' The west wind always brings wet weather, The east...wind surely brings us rain, The north wind blows it buck again. If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet ; I f the sun should set... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1838 - Страниц: 410
...it should find a record) has described our weather with much humour in the following lines : — " The west wind always brings wet weather, The east...brings us rain, The north wind blows it back again. If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will he wet ; If the sun should set in gray, The... | |
 | 1839 - Страниц: 444
...tbs other was charged— Willt, on Circumstantial E POETIC DESCRIPTION OF THE DEVONSHIRE C LI MAT I. The west wind always brings wet weather, The east...brings us rain, The north wind blows It back again; If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet; If the sun should set in gray, The next... | |
 | 1844 - Страниц: 836
...entertaining letters we find the following effusion of a Devonshire poet : — The West wind always bring* wet weather, The East wind wet and cold together,...brings us rain, The North wind blows it back again. If the Bun in red should Get, The next day surely will be wet ; If the nm should wt in gray, The next... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - Страниц: 372
...of some unhappy scion of the house of Megrim. A Glasgow friend says it would answer for Greenock — The west wind always brings wet weather ; The east...brings us rain ; The north wind blows it back again ; If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet ; If the sun should set in gray, The... | |
 | Sir James Edward Alexander - 1849 - Страниц: 390
...the autumn what is alleged against the weather of soft and beautiful Devonshire; first of the wind, " The west wind always brings wet weather. The east...brings us rain, The north wind blows it back again." Then of the sun, " If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet VOL. II. P If the... | |
 | Thomas Clifton Paris - 1851 - Страниц: 312
...superimposed a layer of peat of uncertain depth, but occasionally as thick as 25ft. or 30ft. The prevailing gloom of the moor is the principal obstacle to its...rain, The north wind blows it back again." However, sajs an old writer, " The ayre is very sweete, wholesome, and temperate, savhige that in the winter... | |
 | Edward Cockrem - 1856 - Страниц: 280
...the Dartmoor stables. The frequent rains here have given birth to the famous Devonshire rhymes — The west wind always brings wet weather, The east...brings us rain, The north wind blows it back again. Yet to these frequent rains, constantly feeding the rivers, we owe the matchless tints of the Devonshire... | |
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The west wind always brings wet weather, The east wind wet and cold together, The south wind surely brings us rain, The north wind blows it back again. 
