 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pages
...the heel and hand admonish'd, She ventured forward on the light; And, vow ! Tam saw an unco sight! Warlocks and witches in a dance; Nae cotillon brent...and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the cast, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1839 - 376 pages
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 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 368 pages
...forward on the light ; And wow ! Tam saw an unco sight ! Warlocks and witches in a dance ; Nae cotillion brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. At winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim,... | |
 | 1841 - 658 pages
...itself: — " The question is what business ? Was it a ball given on the anniversary of the Fall ? " ' There sat auld Nick in shape o' beast ,; A towzie...black, grim, and large To gie them music was his charge :' and pray who is to pay the piper ? We fear that young witch Nannie ! ' For Satan glower'd, and fidg'd... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...lingered in Scotland until the period when Burns preserved it for all time in ' Tarn o' Shanter :' — " Warlocks and witches in a dance ; Nae cotillon brent...east, There sat auld Nick in shape o' beast ; A towzie Here is what the editor of the ' Witchcraft Trials ' so justly calls a display of " imagination." What... | |
 | 1843 - 678 pages
...reels." He would have answered very well to the description of the infernal piper in Tarn O'Shanter : " A winnock-bunker in the east There sat Auld Nick in...grim and large, To gie them music was his charge." To this popular notion of the impersonation of the principle of evil, we are doubtless indebted for... | |
 | 1843 - 708 pages
...reels." He would have answered very well to the description of the infernal piper in Tarn O'Shanter : " A winnock-bunker in the east There sat Auld Nick in...grim and large, To gie them music was his charge." To this popular notion of the impersonation of the principle of evil, we are doubtless indebted for... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...the heel and hand admonish'd, She ventur'd forward on the light; And, wow ! TAM saw an unco sight ! Warlocks and witches in a dance ; Nae cotillon brent...strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunkcr in the east, There sat auld Kick in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 266 pages
...question—the question is what business? Was it a ball given him on the anniversary of the Fall ? " There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke,...grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge:" • and pray who is to pay the piper ? We fear that young witch Nannie! " For Satan glowVd, and fidged... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 248 pages
...question—the question is what business ? Was it a ball given him on the anniversary of the Fall ? " There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was hia charge:" and pray who is to pay the piper ? We fear that young witch Nannie! " For Satan glow'r'd,... | |
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Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round, like open presses, That... 
