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
| Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reete, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast;...grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd his pipes, and gart them skirl Till roof aud rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round like... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...question — the question is what business 2 Was it a ball given him on the anniversary of the Fall ? " There sat Auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie...grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : " and pray who is to pay the piper ? We fear that young witch Nanny 1 " For Satan glowr'd, and fidged... | |
| Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1857 - 388 pages
...well as we could, the monstermusician, " in the shape o' beast," sitting in the window: " A towsie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was...charge: He screwed the pipes and gart them skirl, TU1 roof and rafters a' did dirl." But alas! "roof and rafters," as before said, are all gone now;... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...Was it a ball given him on the anniversary of the Fall ? " There sat Auld Nick, in shape o' beast j A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge :" and pray who is to pay the piper ? We fear that young witch. Nanny ! " For Satan glowr'd, and fidged... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...ball given him on the anniversary of the Fall ? " There sat Auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzle tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge :" and pray who is to pay the piper ? We fear that young witch. Nanny I " For Satan glowr'd, and fidged... | |
| James White - 1858 - 316 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 ;...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,... | |
| James White - 1859 - 118 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;...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, like... | |
| Robert Burns - 1859 - 530 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;...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. Coffins stood round like... | |
| James Ballantine - 1859 - 634 pages
...similar to that awful night, when Kirk Allowav seemed in a blaze, and the great musician, " Screwed his pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirL" The whole affair, however, was wound up successfully, and at the appointed hour the Hall was filled... | |
| John Wilson - 1861 - 236 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...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 glow'r'd, and fidged... | |
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