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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 "
Poems, Songs, and Letters: Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns - Page 93
by Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 636 pages
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Views in North Britain: Illustrative of the Works of Robert Burns

James Storer, John Greig - 1805 - 116 pages
...inventory of attendant circumstances, that exhibits a mind fertile with images of the most terrific nature. Coffins stood round, like open presses; That shaw'd...the 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 the...
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The Works of Robert Burns: General correspondence, including pieces of ...

Robert Burns - 1806 - 506 pages
...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...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light." But when I came to the succeeding lines, my blood...
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The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a ..., Volume 2

Robert Burns - 1806 - 622 pages
...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 some devilish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light." But when I came to the succeeding lines, my blood...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: Collated with the Best Editions, Volumes 1-2

Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pages
...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...dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light. — By \vJiioh heroic Tam was able To note upon...
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The London review, conducted by R. Cumberland, Volume 1

Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 pages
...******* Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm." — (Vol. III. p. 327, 328.) '' 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." (Ibid. p. 330.) There is much humour in a...
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Poems, Volume 2

Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...and large, To gie them 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 Tam was able To note upon...
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A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns

George Gleig - 1812 - 142 pages
...large ; To gi'e them music was his chnrge : He screw'd the pipes, an' gart them skirl, Till roof an' rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round, like open...presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; An' by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light ; By which heroic Tam was...
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The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a ..., Volume 3

Robert Burns - 1815 - 364 pages
...shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, blaek, grim, and large, To gie them musie was his eharge : He serew'd the pipes and gart them skirl, 'Till roof and rafters...presses ; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; Arid by some devilish eantrip slight, Eaefs in his eauld hand held a light,— By whieh heroie Tam...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 pages
...shape o' beast; A touzie 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...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...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Whitehead, 1785, to Anstey, 1805

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pages
...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...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...
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