...I am inclined to think that Goethe must have read Burns' Tarn O'Shanter before writing this: — " Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon...

...and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd his pipes, and gart them skirl Till roof aud rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dressei And, by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held i light, By which, heroic...

...realize the fantastic, horrible scene, in which " Coffins stood round like open presses, That showed the dead in their last dresses, And, by some devilish...cantraip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light." The poem of Tarn O' Shanter is certainly the most vigorous, if not the most pleasing effort of Burns's...

...horrid playthings ; but that hideous image as appalling as any terror in Shakspeare's sorcery : — " Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd...dead in their last dresses ; And, by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in- its cauld hand held a light." The hideousness of the supernatural scene is...

...How was Tam able to stand the sight, " glorious " and " heroic " as he was, of the open presses ? " Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light." Because, show a man some sight that is altogether...

...How was Tam able to stand the sight, " glorious " and " heroic " as he was, of the open presses ? " Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light." Because, show a man some sight that is altogether...

...! How was Tam able to stand the sight, "glorious" and " heroic " as he was, of the open presses ? " Coffins stood round like open presses, ! That shaw'd...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light." Because, show a man some sight that is altogether...

...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' did dirl. —...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light — By which heroic Tarn was ahle To note upon the...

...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' did dirl. —...dead in their last dresses ; . And by some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light — By which heroic Tam was ahle To note upon the...

...presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tarn...haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new cutted frae a rape, Wf his last gasp his gab did...