 | Ralph Knight - 1959 - 246 pagine
...tousie 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...their last dresses; And, by some devilish cantraip sleight, Each in its cauld hand held a light: By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table,... | |
 | Donald A. Low - 1974 - 474 pagine
...exceeded. I know not that I have ever met with a picture of more horrible fancy than the following: Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And, by sonic devilish cantraip sleight, Each in its cauld hand held a light. But when I came to die succeeding... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pagine
...towsie tyke, black, grim, and large. To gie them music was his charge; He screwed the pipes and gart them skirl. Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round like open presses, That shawed the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish cantraip sleight Each in its cauld hand... | |
 | Susan Manning, Peter France, Emeritus Professor of French Peter France - 2006 - 248 pagine
...supernatural, empirical detail and unnameable imaginings are traversed in his mad midnight encounter: Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd...haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; Wi' mair o' horrible and awefu', Which even to name wad be unlawful4... | |
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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 
