 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 468 Seiten
...music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd...slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light,— By which heroic 7am was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims; Twa span-lang,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 622 Seiten
...exceeded. 1 know not that I have ever met with a picture of more horrible fancy than the following: " Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in lus cauld hand held a light." But when I came to the succeeding lines, my blood ran cold within me:... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 Seiten
...******* Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm."—• (Vol. III. p. 327, 328.) " Coffins stood round, like open presses, " That shaw'd...cantrip slight, " Each in its cauld hand held a, light." (Ibid. p. 330.) There is much humour in a little song, composed by the poet on his marriage: " I hae... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 Seiten
...music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl,Till roof an' rafters a' did dirl,— Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd...slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light.— By which, heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims; Twa span-lang,... | |
 | 1812 - 140 Seiten
...music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes, an' gart. them skirl, Till roof an' rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses : An' by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light; By which heroic Tarn was... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - 444 Seiten
...music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd...slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light,— By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - 506 Seiten
...exceeded. I know not that I have ever met with a picture of more horrible fancy than the following : " Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...dresses; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light." But when I came to the succeeding lines, my blood ran cold within me... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 Seiten
...music was his charge; He screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light— By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet-airns; Twa span-lang,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 358 Seiten
...his charge ; He screw'd the pjpes7aiid-jrart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl^=Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead...slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light— By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet-airns j Twa span-lang,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 494 Seiten
...music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did din.— -Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd...slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light,— By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims; Twa span-lang,... | |
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Coffins stood round, like open presses ; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light. By this heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet airns 
