 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 Seiten
...name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowr'd, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious : . I was not only 'a ship-boy on the high nnd Tarn, 0 Tarn ! had they been queans, A' plump and strapping, in their teens ; Their sarks, instead... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 Seiten
...name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammic glowr'd, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious : , Or from its deathlike void, with punctual care,...powers of sense, And reason's steadfast rule, — I ink ct at it in her sark ! Now Tam, O Tarn ! had they heen queans, A' plump and strapping, in their... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 Seiten
...name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammic glowr'd, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious: The piper loud and louder blew ; The dancers quick...quicker flew; They reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleckit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies to the wark, And linket at it in her... | |
 | Edwin Guest - 1838 - 338 Seiten
...Unless | mischance\ -. miscAanc|eth me|, Such homely gift of me your man. Tusser to Lord W. Paget. The pi|per loud\ -. and loud\er blew|, The dancers| quick\ -. and quick\er flew|. _ Burns. O Henderson the man ! the brother ! And art ] thou gone\ : and gone \ for ev|er ! Burns. May... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 368 Seiten
...name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowr'd, amaz'd and curious. The mirth and fun grew fast and furious ; The piper loud and louder blew ; The dancers quick...cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her daddies to the wark, And linket at it in her sark ! Now Tam, O Tam ! had they been queens, A' plump... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 Seiten
...TAM O'SHANTER. " While Tammie glower'd^amazed and curious, The noise and fun grew fast and furious : The piper loud and louder blew, The dancers quick and quicker flew." THE old woman, Jenny Wilson by name, who initiated the boy Burns into the mystery of wraiths, death-lights,... | |
 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - 1887 - 644 Seiten
...heads, arms, and legs were all into one confused and agitated mass. We thought of Tam O'Shanter — " The piper loud and louder blew, The dancers quick and quicker flew." But there was no " Cutty Sark " in the dance to give it piquancy to such as Tam. The furious dance... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 Seiten
...wad be unlawfu : As Tammie glow'r'd,n amaz'd, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious ; The piper loud and louder blew ; The dancers quick...cross'd, they cleekit,* Till ilka carlin swat and reekit.P And coost her duddiesi to the wark, And linket1 at it in her sark.' Now Tarn, O Tarn ! had... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 Seiten
...he came, his brow flushed, and his yes shining ; he was reciting these lines — " ' Now— Tam ! О Tam ! had thae been queans A' plump and strapping in their teens, Their sarks, instead of creeshie Hannen, Been snaw-white seventeen hunder linen ! Thir breeks o' mine, my only pair, That... | |
 | 1845 - 440 Seiten
...loud and louder hlew ; The dancers quick and quicker flew ; They reel'd, they set, they crose'd, they Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies to the wark, And linket at it in her sark ! Now Tат, О Tат ! had they heen queens A' plump an' strapping, in their teens ; Their sarks, instead... | |
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Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which ev'n to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious ! The piper loud and louder blew ; The dancers quick and quicker flew ; They reel'd, they set, they cross'd,... 
