| British anthology - 1825 - 464 頁
...But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker hi the east, There sat Auld Nick, in shape o' beast ;..., and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screvv'd the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round, like... | |
| Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 頁
...France, 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: lie screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl— Coffins stood round... | |
| Robert Burns - 1826 - 288 頁
...strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There tax. auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie ihem music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gait them skirl, Till roof an' rafters a' did dirt.... | |
| George Beattie - 1826 - 130 頁
...the light fantastic toe ;" then jingled in my ears the forcible and firmly clenched lines of Burns: " He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl," &c. " ....Hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels. Put life and mettle in their heels," &c. " As Tarnmie... | |
| Robert Burns - 1830 - 50 頁
...France, 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...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
| 1830 - 252 頁
...for vigor and truth of delineation) has fallen in with this notion in his immortal Tam O'Shanter : ' There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast A towzie tyke, BLACK, grim and large,' And again in his address to this same ' Grim towzie tyke' he says, ' O thou, whatever title suit thee,... | |
| 1831 - 426 頁
...a dance ; Nae cotillon brent new frae France^ But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the...grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : 1 I e screw 'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' diidirl.— Coffins stood... | |
| Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 頁
...hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels. Put life ana mettfe in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the cast, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke,...them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gort them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round like open presses, That... | |
| Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 頁
...truth of delineation) has fallen in with this notion in his immortal Tarn O'Shanter, " There sat anld Nick, in shape o' beast, A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large ;" And, again, in his address to this same ' grim towzie tyke,' he says, " O thou, whatever title suit... | |
| Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 356 頁
...hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels : A winnock-bunker in the east, A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round, like open presses ; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
| |