 | David Irving - 1804 - 524 pągines
...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...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. VOL. II. 3 R Coffins stood round, like open presses ; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses j... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pągines
...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... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pągines
...mettle in their heels, A winnock-bnnker 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 \vJiioh heroic Tam was able To note upon... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pągines
...and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl,Till roof an' rafters a' did dirl, — Coffins stood round, like...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pągines
...mettle in their heels, A winnock-buuker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was...gart them skirl! Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Collins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1815 - 364 pągines
...shape o' beast ; 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...presses ; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; Arid by some devilish eantrip slight, Eaefs in his eauld hand held a light,— By whieh heroie Tam... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pągines
...mettle in their heels. As winnock-bunker, in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ,A touzie 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pągines
...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 pągines
...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 pągines
...mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There set auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was...the dead in their last dresses, And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tum was able To note upon... | |
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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 
