 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust (Legendary figure) - 1840 - 360 pages
...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...To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbit aims; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new cutted frae a rape, WV his last... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1840 - 340 pages
...dresses; • And, by some devilish cantrip-sleight, Bach in his cauld hand held a light ; • By whi&h heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, — A murderer's banes in gibbet-aims, Twa span-lang wee unchristen'd bairns, A thief new cutted frae a rape, Ty»' his last... | |
 | Books - 1841 - 658 pages
...dancing what cared Tam who held the candles ? He was bedevilled, bewarlocked and bewitched, and therefore 'Able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | Medicine - 1842 - 1106 pages
...presses, That sha\ved the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light, By which heroic Tam was able...note upon the haly table, — A murderer's banes in gibbet-airns; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristened bairns; A thief new cuttit frae a rape Wi' his last... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And, by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light — By which heroic...To note upon the haly table A murderer's banes in gibbet-airns ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new cutted frae a rape, , Wi' his... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...like open presses, That shaw'il the de/ul in their last dresses; And, by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light— By which heroic...To note upon the haly table A murderer's banes in gibbet-aims; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new cutted free a rape, Wi' his last... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip sleight, Each in his cauld hand held a light.— By which heroic TAM was...To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet-airns ; Twa span-lang, wee, uncbristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 236 pages
...what cared Tam who held the candle ? He was bedevilled, bewarlocked and bewitched, and therefore " Able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 248 pages
...what cared Tam who held the candle ? He was bedevilled, bewarlocked and bewitched, and therefore " Able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet airns; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 860 pages
...And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table A murderer's banes in gibbet*airna ; Twa span-long wee nnchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last... | |
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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 ain son o... 
