 | George Beattie - 1826 - 130 pages
...the light fantastic toe ;" then jingled in my ears the forcible and firmly clenched lines of Burns: " He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl," &c. " ....Hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels. Put life and mettle in their heels," &c. " As Tarnmie... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 288 pages
...strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There tax. auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie ihem music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gait them skirl, Till roof an' rafters a' did dirt.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1830 - 50 pages
...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... | |
 | American literature - 1830 - 252 pages
...for vigor and truth of delineation) has fallen in with this notion in his immortal Tam O'Shanter : ' There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast A towzie tyke, BLACK, grim and large,' And again in his address to this same ' Grim towzie tyke' he says, ' O thou, whatever title suit thee,... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels. Put life ana mettfe in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the cast, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke,...them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gort them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round like open presses, That... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...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;...grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : 1 I e screw 'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' diidirl.— Coffins stood... | |
 | Egerton Smith - English literature - 1831 - 656 pages
...truth of delineation) has fallen in with this notion in his immortal Tarn O'Shanter, " There sat anld Nick, in shape o' beast, A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large ;" And, again, in his address to this same ' grim towzie tyke,' he says, " O thou, whatever title suit... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 356 pages
...hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels : A winnock-bunker in the east, A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them...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 - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 236 pages
...mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape <>" beast ; A lowzio tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was...charge : He screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl Til! rnyf and rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round like open presses, Thai shaw'd the dead in their... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 pages
...heels. A winnock-hunker in the east, There sat auld Nick in shape o' heast j A towzie tyke, hlack, 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.— 146 POEMS. 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 
