 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
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick in shape o' beast ; A towzie Here is what the editor of the ' Witchcraft Trials ' so justly calls a display of " imagination." What... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels. Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunkerb in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke,c black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screw 'd the pipes and gartd them... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 266 pages
...question—the question is what business? Was it a ball given him on the anniversary of the Fall ? " There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke,...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 glowVd, and fidged... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 248 pages
...question—the question is what business ? Was it a ball given him on the anniversary of the Fall ? " There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was hia charge:" and pray who is to pay the piper ? We fear that young witch Nannie! " For Satan glow'r'd,... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunkcr in the east, There sat auld Kick 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' did dirl.— Coffins stood round... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...o' heast ; A towzic tyke, hlack, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd his pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a'...dirL — Coffins stood round like open presses. That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And hy some devilish cantrip slight, Ivicli in its c.nild hand... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...mettle in their heels. As winnock-bunker, in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A touzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screw VI the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl , Coffins stood round like... | |
 | James William Massie - 1846 - 572 pages
...association recalled by a visit to these sepulchral dormitories with " The winnock-bunker in the east, Where sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke,...grim, and large, To gi'e them music was his charge." In perfect harmony -with such objects of venerated devotion and means of exciting homage and liberality... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 228 pages
...But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, an' reels, Put life an' mettle i' their heels : A winnock-bunker i' the east, There sat auld Nick in shape o' beast ;...grim and large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screw'd the pipes and gait them skirl Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round, like... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 222 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...— Coffins stood round, like open presses ; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; 4* And by some dev'lish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand... | |
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