 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pàgines
...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 name wad be uulawfu'. As Tammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious, The mirth an fun grew fast and... | |
 | 1809 - 604 pàgines
...scymetars ivi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled, -M •; Wham his aln Son o' life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to the 'heft, —...mair o' horrible and awfu', Which e'en to name wad be unfawfu.' The elision of the I at the end of the two last rhymes is wonderfully expressive of a horror... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pàgines
...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 awefu' Which ev'n to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious, The mirth and fun... | |
 | George Gleig - 1812 - 142 pàgines
...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 an' awfu', Which ev'n to name wad be unlawfu'." That BURNS had in his mind the caldron of Shakespeare's... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pàgines
...strangled ; A knife, :i father's throat had mangled, Whom !iis ain son o' life bereft, The gray heirs yet stack to the heft ; Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which ev'n to name wad be uolawfu'. As Tammie glowr'd amaz'd and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pàgines
...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 ev'n to name wad be unlawfu'. Ae Tammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 pàgines
...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'...horrible and awfu', Which e'en to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tamnde glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious. The mirth and fun grew fast and furious . The piper loud and... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 pàgines
...babe had strangled; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The gray hairs yet stack to the heft ; Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which ev'n to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pàgines
...babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The gray hairs yet stack to the heft ; Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which even t« name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowr'd, amazed, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pàgines
...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 name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowr'd, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and... | |
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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' life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to... 
