 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 Seiten
...But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. At winnock-bunker 1 in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast...music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gart 3 them skirl, 4 Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round, like open presses, That... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1927 - 648 Seiten
...a dance; lis 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 sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; 120 A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge. He screwed the pipes... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922 - 650 Seiten
...in a dance; us 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 sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; 120 A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge. He screwed the pipes and... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 Seiten
...France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels Put life and mettle in their heels : A winnock bunker d; there towsie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screwed the pipes and gart... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Wilson - 1925 - 372 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...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 ; When, glimmering... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 386 Seiten
...winnock-bunker a in the east, 1 smothered. a birches. * big. * hole in the wall. 8 window-seat. There sat old Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie * tyke, black, grim and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screwed the pipes and gart 2 them skirl,' Till roof and rafters a' did diri. Coffins stood round, like... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1926 - 734 Seiten
...cotillon, brent* new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put Ufe and mettle in then- heels. A winnock-bunker' in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towrie tyke, g black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and... | |
 | 1928 - 542 Seiten
...dowg, bawtie, collie, tyke, bitch, cur, bloodhound, jowler, lapdog, and puppy. Satan is " a tousie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge," in the witches' revels at Alloway Kirk, which so much astonished Tarn o' Shanter. Burns described himself... | |
 | Ralph Knight - 1959 - 246 Seiten
...a dance: Nae cotillion, brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put Me and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat Auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A tousie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1994 - 676 Seiten
...witches in a dance! Nae cotillon brent new fras 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' beaá— zao A touzie tyke, black, grim, and large! To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the... | |
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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 
