 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...mettle in their heels. A winnock-bnnker in the east, There pat auld Niek, in shape o' beast — A towzio the kindred dusk of eve. To-morrow brings a change,...Which even now, though silently perform'd, And sl an' rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screwed the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters...dirl. — Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shawed the dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1875 - 622 pages
...o' Insist— A towzie tyke, blaek, grim, and large — To gie them musie was his eharge: He serew'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters...That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by *ome devilish eantrip sleight I. .• l, in its , .mid hand held a light By whieh heroie Tam was able... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screwed the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters...dirl. — Coffins stood round like open presses, That shawed the dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantraip slight, Each in its cauld hand... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Anthologies - 1875 - 240 pages
...shape o' beast ; A towzie J tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screwed the pipes and gart them skirl, § Till roof and rafters...dirl, — Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shawed the dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip |[ slight Each in its cauld hand... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1876 - 540 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...in its cauld hand held a light.— By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet-airns; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape <>' beast — A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large — To gie them music...the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish cantrip sleight Kach in its cauld hand held a light — Hy which heroic Tarn was able To note upon... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama (Comedy) - 1876 - 474 pages
...mettle in their heels. A wiimock -bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick in shape o' beast ; A tuwzic tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was...and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did clirl. Coffins stood round like open presses, That shawed the dead in their last dresses ; And, by... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 pages
...black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gart3 them skirl,4 Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip5 slight Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tam was able To note upon... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1876 - 626 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...charge; He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till r.mf and rafters a' did dirl.— Coffins utiiod round, like open presses; That shaw'd the dead ¡u... | |
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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 
