 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pagine
...horrid playthings; but that hideous image as appalling as any terror in Shakspeare's sorcery:— " Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd...dead in their last dresses ; And, by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light." The hideousness of the supernatural scene is... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 440 pagine
...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. —...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light, By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1865 - 470 pagine
...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. —...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1866 - 356 pagine
...towsie 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. —...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 264 pagine
...large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd his pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof an' rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round like open...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip sleight, Each in his cauld hand held a light, By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pagine
...large — To gie them music was his charge ; He screwed the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof an' rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round like open...the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish cantrips sleight, Each in its cauld hand held a light — By which heroic Tam was able To note upon... | |
 | 1900 - 1062 pagine
...music was his charge; He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. 1 Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...their last dresses. And, by some devilish cantraip sleight, Each in its cauld hand held a light; By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the holy table... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 pagine
...music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.-v Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon... | |
 | Alexander John Ellis - 1889 - 1040 pagine
...was his charge : 122 He screw'd the pipes & gart them skirl, Till roof & rafters a' did dirl. — 124 Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd...And by some devilish cantraip slight, Each in its uauld hand held a light. — 128 By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table ; ISO A... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1869 - 624 pagine
...large, To gie tEem music was his charge ; He screw'd the pipes and gart" them skirl,* Till roof an' rafters a' did dirl.'— Coffins stood round like...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip' slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which, heroic Tarn was able To note upon... | |
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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 
