 | Robert Burns - 1870 - 652 Seiten
...and awfu', Which ev'n to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowred,1 amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious : The piper loud and louder blew ; The dancers quick and quicker Hew ; They reeled, they set, they crossed, they cleekit,2 Till ilka carlin 3 swat and reekit,4 And... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1871 - 516 Seiten
...and awfu', Which even 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...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 Seiten
...and awfu' Which even to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowered, amazed and curions, The mirth and the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of...ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful t reeled, they set, they crossed, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies... | |
 | James Allan Mair - 1872 - 422 Seiten
...and awfu', Which ev'n to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glow'r'd, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious ; The piper loud and louder...and reekit, And coost her duddies to the wark, And linkit at it in her sark ! Now, Tam, O Tam ! had thae been queans, A' plump and strappin', in their... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1872 - 778 Seiten
...and awfu', Which e'en to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowr'd, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious : The piper loud and louder...reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit. Till ilka carline swat and reekit, And coost her duddies to the wark And linkit at it in her sark ! IBO Now Tam,... | |
 | James Brown (editor, of Elgin.) - 1873 - 406 Seiten
...his pipes, and garrin' them skirl. Burns beats all other poets to sticks at a witch-dance. Listen — The piper loud and louder blew, The dancers quick...cross'd, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit. That was dancing in em-nest, and the old fellow himself was enchanted with it, for Hornpipes, jigs,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 Seiten
...loader blew ; The dancers quick and quicker flew ; They reel'd, they set,they cross'd, they clockit, tream that down the distant rocks Hoarse-murmuring Tarn, 0 Tarn ! had they been qacana A' plump and strapping in thoir teens : Their sarks, instead o'... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 Seiten
...piper loud and louder blew ; The dancers quick and quicker flew ; They reeled, they set, they crossed, pon thy love-sick ¡t in her sark ! Now Tarn, 0 Tarn ! had they been queans, A' plump and strapping in their teens :... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1874 - 324 Seiten
...Burns employs it with great effect when describing what Tain o' Shanter saw in the Dance of Witches:— The piper loud and louder blew, The dancers quick...reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit, Till ilka carline swat and reekit. And in his epistle to James Smith, That auld capricious carline Nature Has... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 Seiten
...and awfu', Which even to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowered, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious : The piper loud and louder blew; The dancers quick and quicker flew; They reeled, they set, they crossed, they cleekit, Till ilkft carlin sweat and reekit, And coost her duddies... | |
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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,... 
