 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 288 页
...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.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1830 - 50 页
...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 : He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round like... | |
 | 1830 - 252 页
...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 页
...Nae cotillon brent new frae France^ But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There...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 页
...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,...grim, and large, To gie 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... | |
 | Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 页
...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 页
...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 music was his charge ; He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 236 页
...Nae cotillion brent new frae'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 <>" beast ; A lowzio tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd the... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 页
...Nae cotillion brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 页
...Nae eotillion brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs. strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There...A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them musie was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl. Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.... | |
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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... 
