...mettle 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...their last dresses; And by some devilish cantraip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light,— By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly...

...mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie play, no soothing game devise, To make thee lovely...scornful dame. And ev'n Caissa own a mutual flame." ' hy some devilish cantraip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tam was...

...midnight hags," within the walls of Auld Kirk Alloway, Satan himself being bag-piper to their dancing. " Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd...dead in their last dresses ; And, by some devilish cantrip-sleight, Each in his cauld hand held a light ; By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the...

...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...

...winnock-bunker i" the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, an' large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screw'd...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coflins stood round, like open presses ; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some...

...I am inclined to think that Goethe must have read Burns' Tam-O'Shanter before writing this : — tf Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some devlish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tam was able To note...

...mettle in their heels. At 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 his pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— towards the river, and passing...

...equal to the far-famed scenes of the same description in " Macbeth." In the lines commencing — " Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses," there is more horror conveyed to the mind of the reader, than in any poem of modern times. It is stated,...

...a ball given on the anniversary of the Fall ? " ' There sat auld Nick in shape o' beast ,; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large To gie them music was his charge :' and pray who is to pay the piper ? We fear that young witch Nannie ! ' For Satan glower'd, and fidg'd...

...belief in fairies and in witches : " Witches have been transported with the pharie to a hill, A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl." which opening, they went in and there saw a fairie queen." But James also especially says, that the...