 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 232 Seiten
...But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, an' reels, Put life an' mettle i' their heels: A winnock-bunker i' the east, There sat auld Nick in shape o' beast; A...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 ; 4* And by some... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1849 - 290 Seiten
...new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 Seiten
...witches in a dance ; Nae cotillon brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels. Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in...them skirl, Till roof and rafters a" did dirl.— Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'dthe dead in their last dresses; And \>y some devilish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 656 Seiten
...witches in a dance; Nae cotillon brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, 1'ut life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in...the east, There sat auld Nick in shape o' beast; A lowzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes, and gart... | |
 | 1843 - 678 Seiten
...in Tarn O'Shanter : " A winnoek-bunker in the east There sat Auld A'ick in shape o' beast, A lowzic tyke, black, 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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 Seiten
...witches in a dance ; e cotillion brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in...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... | |
 | Henrietta Dumont - 1852 - 330 Seiten
...France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life an mettle in their heels. A winnoc¿ bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast;...was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skin, Till roof and rafters a' did dirLCoffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1853 - 596 Seiten
...new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Pat life and mettle in their heels : Л winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in...grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge ; lit screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Г.П roof and rafters a' did dirl.— C'-jffina stood... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 254 Seiten
...question—the question is what business ? Was it a ball given him on the anniversary of the Fall ? "There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie...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 glow'r'd, and fidged... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 Seiten
...hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels : A winnock-bunker i* 1 the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ;...and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did diri.— Coflins stood round, like open presses ; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And... | |
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life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld 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 
