...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 his pipes, and gart them skirl Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round like open presses,...

...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 glow'r'd, and fidged...

...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 glow'r'd, and fidged...

...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,...

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

...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 his pipes, and gart them skirl Till roof aud rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round like open presses,...

...horrid playthings ; but that hideous image as appalling as any terror in Shakspeare's sorcery : — " Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd...dead in their last dresses ; And, by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in- its cauld hand held a light." The hideousness of the supernatural scene is...

...horrid playthings ; but that hideous image as appalling as any terror in Shakspeare's sorcery: — " Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; A nd, by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light." The hideousness of the...

...well as we could, the monstermusician, " in the shape o' beast," sitting in the window: " A towsie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screwed the pipes and gart them skirl, TU1 roof and rafters a' did dirl." But alas! "roof and rafters,"...

...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 Nanny 1 " For Satan glowr'd, and fidged...