 | Robert Burns - 1895 - 512 pages
...rin, Till skelp — a shot — they're aff, a' throwther,* To save their skin. But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill,...He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Saucy. ' Clothes. > Daws. « Hesitation, Nae cfiuld, faint-hearted doublings tease him1. Death comes,... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1895 - 350 pages
...consecrates, alas ! to Scotch Drink, the most fatal of all the ills of Scotland — " But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill,...there's the foe, He has nae thought but how to kill Tvva at a blow. " Nae cauld, faint-hearted doubtings tease him ; Death comes, wi' fearless eyes he... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 674 pages
...rin, 160 Till skelp ! a shot — they 're aff, a' throu'ther, To save their skin. But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say ' Such is royal George's will, An' there 's the foe ! ' He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld faint-hearted doubtings... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 516 pages
...shot — they 're aff, a' throw'ther, To save their skin. Put in his mouth XXIX But bring n Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An' there 's the foe ! He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doubtings... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 520 pages
...rin, Till skelp-a shot— they 're aff, a' throw'ther, To save their skin. But bring a Scotsman free his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An' there 's the foe ! He has nae thought but how to kill no Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doubtings... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 518 pages
...shot — they 're aff, a' throw'ther, To save their skin. XXIX But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, hb Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An' there 's the foe ! He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doublings... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1899 - 562 pages
...sign was the portrait of Burns, with the following lines, also from his own song: " Tak' a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say such is Royal George's will, And there's the foe : He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow." The Royal Standard Tavern,... | |
 | 1900 - 668 pages
...victorious. " " Wha last beside his chair shall fa', He is the king amang us three. " And again — " Bring a Scotchman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek...foe ; He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow.'1 Mr. President, if these be laults in the works of Burns, they are past washing out. Like the... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1900 - 334 pages
...the Scotsman is humorous — But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill,t Say, such is royal George's will, An' there's the...He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Here the notion of danger rouses the imagination of the poet. He goes on thus — Nae cauld, faint-hearted... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1900 - 340 pages
...ring, man, On's back lying flat, he wav'd his hat, And cried, Ood save the King, man. — Skirving. But bring a Scotchman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek...a Highland gill, Say, such is Royal George's will, And there's the foe; He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae canld faint-hearted doubtings... | |
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But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An there's the foe! 
