| John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...ball given him on the anniversary of the Fall ? " There sat Auld Nick, in shape o' beast j 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 ! " For Satan glowr'd, and fidged... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...ball given him on the anniversary of the Fall ? " There sat Auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzle 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 I " For Satan glowr'd, and fidged... | |
| James White - 1858 - 320 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 ahle To note upon the... | |
| James White - 1859 - 108 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 ahle To note upon the... | |
| Robert Burns - 1859 - 530 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 his pipes, and gart them skirl Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round like open presses,... | |
| James Ballantine - 1859 - 634 pages
...similar to that awful night, when Kirk Allowav seemed in a blaze, and the great musician, " Screwed his pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirL" The whole affair, however, was wound up successfully, and at the appointed hour the Hall was filled... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pages
...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... | |
| Charles Knight - 1860 - 576 pages
...: " Witches have been transported with the pharie to a hill, A towzie tyke, black, grim, and largo, To gi'e them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes, and g-.irt them skirl. Till roof and rafter-* a' did dirl." Tifaich opening they went in and there saw... | |
| Robert Burns - 1863 - 440 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 the haly... | |
| Lucien Poirier - 1990 - 300 pages
...hornpipes, jigs, strathfpeys and reels ° Put life and mettle in theer heels. — ° [...] ° A touzie tyke, black, grim and large, ° To gie them music was his charge ; ° [...]». 23. Q-QM/MQ, 4 (.02) : 8-11 ; F. Article. [BARON DE BIELFELD]. INSTITUTIONS POLITIQUES... | |
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