 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...mettle in their heels. A winnock bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tam was able To note upon... | |
 | Gilpin Gorst - 1825 - 116 pages
...the uorrhwm Bard. 30 A winnock bmifkcr in the east, There sat uuld Nick in shape o' beast : A towsie tyke, black, grim and large, To gie them music was...gar't them skirl Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. They reel'd, they set, they cross'd they cleokit, ' Till ilka carlin swat and reekit." The handsome... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker hi the east, There sat Auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black , grim , and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screvv'd the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round, like... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 pages
...mettle in their heels. A winnock bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw 'd the pipes and gart them skirl. Till roof and rafters a' did dirl,— Coffins stood round like... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 288 pages
...music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gait them skirl, Till roof an' rafters a' did dirt. — Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...dead in their last dresses ! And by some devilish cantrip slight, Kurii in its cauld handheld a lignt, — By which, heroic Tarn was able To note upon... | |
 | George Beattie - 1826 - 130 pages
...the light fantastic toe ;" then jingled in my ears the forcible and firmly clenched lines of Burns: " He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl," &c. " ....Hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels. Put life and mettle in their heels," &c. " As Tarnmie... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pages
...mettle in their heelS. A winnock bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large ; To gie them music was his charge: lie screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl— Coffins stood round... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1830 - 50 pages
...mettle in their heels. A winnock bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 pages
...mettfe in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the cast, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gort them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round like open presses, That... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : 1 I e screw 'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' diidirl.— Coffins stood... | |
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Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a 
