 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1801 - 266 páginas
...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 páginas
...France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put Kfe and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast...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 páginas
...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...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 páginas
...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...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round, like open presses ; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
 | Scottish uses - 1808 - 228 páginas
...winuock-bunker i' the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' brasl \ A towzfc tyke, black, grim, an' large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes, an' gart them skirl, Till roof an' ranters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round, like open prcsse;,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 páginas
...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...was his charge : He screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl,Till roof an' rafters a' did dirl, — Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the... | |
 | George Gleig - 1812 - 142 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1812 - 140 páginas
...r >*-»# ra'tl o slso* ^n. Thon and thf Smitb ^ot rrwbtg. fotl i 64 A towzie tyke, black, grim, an large; To gi'e them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes, an' gart. them skirl, Till roof an' rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round, like open presses, That... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1815 - 364 páginas
...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 a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round like open presses ; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; Arid by some devilish... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 páginas
...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...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And, by some... | |
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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 
