| 1843 - 678 pages
...in Tarn O'Shanter : " 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." To this popular notion of the impersonation of the principle of evil, we are doubtless indebted for... | |
| 1843 - 708 pages
...in Tarn O'Shanter : " 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." To this popular notion of the impersonation of the principle of evil, we are doubtless indebted for... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...their heels. A winnock-bunkerb in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke,c black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screw 'd the pipes and gartd them skirl. Till roof an' rafters a' did dirl.f — Coffins stood round... | |
| General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunkcr in the east, There sat auld Kick 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 sleight, Each in his cauld hand held a light.— By which heroic TAM was able To note upon... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...There sat auld Nick, in shape o'beast; A touzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was bis charge; He screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl,...did dirl Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'il the de/ul in their last dresses; And, by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand... | |
| John Wilson - 1845 - 266 pages
...Angels! How was Tam able to stand the sight, " glorious and heroic" as he was, of the open presses ? " Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...their last dresses; And by some devilish cantraip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light" Because show a man some sight that is altogether miraculously... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...mettle in their heels. As winnock-bunker, in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A touzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screw VI the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl , Coffins stood round like... | |
| John Wilson - 1845 - 236 pages
...ball given him 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 glowVd, and fidged... | |
| 1845 - 440 pages
...heels. A winnock-hunker in the east, There sat auld Nick in shape o' heast ; A towzic tyke, hlack, 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 — Coffins stood round like open... | |
| James William Massie - 1846 - 572 pages
...dormitories with " The winnock-bunker in the east, Where sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gi'e them music was his charge." In perfect harmony -with such objects of venerated devotion and means of exciting homage and liberality... | |
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