| Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 Seiten
...cotillion brent new frae Frabct, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspey«, and гкЩ Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape. 6' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd his... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 796 Seiten
...Nae cotillon brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle TER'S NIGHT. Poor, naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting screw 'd the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a* did dirl. — Coffins stood round... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 Seiten
...Nae cotillon brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle jk B 8B 3?] dMp7l4 w + A n b L 嬁 ڻA x n 9 ѕ Z yi u 2 Q c a : ' E ( o # W & screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 750 Seiten
...hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the cast, rkling where it runs, Or the pellucid lake." " Small..." Of such illusion do we here incur ; Temptation h screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round like... | |
| Robert Burns - 1840 - 368 Seiten
...new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. At winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in...grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd his pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— towards the river, and... | |
| Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 Seiten
...hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, an' reels, Put life an' mettle i' their heels : At winnock-bunker i" the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, an' large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and... | |
| 1841 - 658 Seiten
...itself: — " The question is what business ? Was it a ball given on the anniversary of the Fall ? " ' There sat auld Nick in shape o' beast ,; A towzie...black, grim, and large To gie them music was his charge :' and pray who is to pay the piper ? We fear that young witch Nannie ! ' For Satan glower'd, and fidg'd... | |
| 1843 - 708 Seiten
...reels." He would have answered very well to the description of the infernal piper in Tarn O'Shanter : " A winnock-bunker in the east There sat Auld Nick in...grim and large, To gie them music was his charge." To this popular notion of the impersonation of the principle of evil, we are doubtless indebted for... | |
| 1843 - 678 Seiten
...reels." He would have answered very well to the description of the infernal piper in Tarn O'Shanter : " A winnock-bunker in the east There sat Auld Nick in...grim and large, To gie them music was his charge." To this popular notion of the impersonation of the principle of evil, we are doubtless indebted for... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 Seiten
...Nae cotillon brent 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 Here is what the editor of the ' Witchcraft Trials ' so justly calls a display of " imagination." What... | |
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