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Views in North Britain: Illustrative of the Works of Robert Burns ... - Page 30
by James Sargant Storer, John Greig (engraver) - 1805 - 61 pages
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Tales of Wonder;, Volume 2

Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 266 pages
...new-cutted frae a rape,6 Wi' his last gasp his gab T did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi blude' red-rusted, Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which...a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain ' son o' life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack 10 to the heft;" Wi' mair" o' horrible and awefu', Which ev'n...
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The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on ..., Volume 2

David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 524 pages
...j Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted j Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter which a bab had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft ; The grey hairs yet stack to the heft. The songs of Burns, which are chiefly of the...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: Collated with the Best Editions, Volumes 1-2

Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' blnde red-rusted ; Five scimitars, wi' murder crnsted , A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to the heft; Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which ev'n to...
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The cabinet of the Scottish muses, selected from the works of the most ...

Scottish uses - Scottish poetry - 1808 - 228 pages
...; Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted ; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter which a habe had strangled, A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to the heft ; Three lawyers tongues turn'd inside out, Wi'...
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Poems, Volume 2

Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which...knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to the heft : Wi' mair o' horrible and awefu' Which ev'n to...
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A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns

George Gleig - 1812 - 142 pages
...new cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted ; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter which...knife a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, , The grey hairs yet stack to the heft : Wi' mair o' horrible an' awfu', Which ev'n...
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The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life , and a ..., Volume 3

Robert Burns - 1813 - 444 pages
...rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape : Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted ; • Five scimitars wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled...knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The gray hairs yet stack to the heft ; . Wi'. Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', "Which...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...gape; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red rusted; Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter, which a bade had strangled; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, "Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to the heft; Wi' mair, o' horrible and awfu', Which e'en to...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Whitehead, 1785, to Anstey, 1805

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape : Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted ; Five scimitars wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled...; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his aiu son o* life bereft, The gray hairs yet stack to the heft ; Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 38

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape , Five tomahawks, wi' bluid Ted-rusted ; Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled...knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to the heft ; Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which e'en to...
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