 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1801 - 266 Seiten
...cotillion brent7 new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker ' in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie-tyke,9 black, grim, and large. To gie 10 them music was his charge ; He screw'd the pipes and... | |
 | David Irving - 1804 - 524 Seiten
...Nae cotillion brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put Kfe and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There...grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. VOL. II. 3 R Coffins stood... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 Seiten
...Nae cotillion brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There...grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 Seiten
...France, But horupipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels, A winnock-bnnker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast...grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 Seiten
...Nae cotillion brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There...grim, 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,... | |
 | George Gleig - 1812 - 142 Seiten
...France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, an' reels, Put life an' mettle in their heels. A winnock bunker in the east, There sat Auld Nick, in shape o' beast, A towzie tyke, black, grim, an large ; To gi'e them music was his chnrge : He screw'd the pipes, an' gart them skirl, Till roof... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 Seiten
...France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels, A winnock-buuker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast;...grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl! Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Collins stood round,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 406 Seiten
...But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock- bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast...grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl — Coffins stood round, like... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 Seiten
...new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reelsPut life and 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 his charge; He screw'd the pipes, and gart... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 Seiten
...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 his charge ; He screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round... | |
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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... 
