 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...  Poems - Page 13by Robert Burns - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 442 pages
...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...dirl. — 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... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 622 pages
...Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape. 6' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd his pipes and gut them »kirli Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round like... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 790 pages
...But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in heresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting screw 'd the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a* did dirl. — Coffins stood round... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 754 pages
...But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in Be mild, and teach thy rugged brow to smile. Canst...game devise, To make thee lovely in the damsel's screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pages
...hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the cast, rkling where it runs, Or the pellucid lake." " Small..." Of such illusion do we here incur ; Temptation h screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round like... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 pages
...hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, an' reels, Put life an' mettle i' their heels : At winnock-bunker i" the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, an' large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 368 pages
...o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd his pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— towards the river, and passing a well which trinkles down into the Doon, where formerly stood a thorn,... | |
 | 1841 - 658 pages
...itself: — " The question is what business ? Was it a ball given on the anniversary of the Fall ? " ' There sat auld Nick in shape o' beast ,; A towzie...black, grim, and large To gie them music was his charge :' and pray who is to pay the piper ? We fear that young witch Nannie ! ' For Satan glower'd, and fidg'd... | |
 | 1843 - 708 pages
...answered very well to the description of the infernal piper in Tarn O'Shanter : " A winnock-bunker in the east There sat Auld Nick in shape o' beast, A...grim and large, To gie them music was his charge." To this popular notion of the impersonation of the principle of evil, we are doubtless indebted for... | |
 | 1843 - 678 pages
...answered very well to the description of the infernal piper in Tarn O'Shanter : " A winnock-bunker in the east There sat Auld Nick in shape o' beast, A...grim and large, To gie them music was his charge." To this popular notion of the impersonation of the principle of evil, we are doubtless indebted for... | |
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