 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 368 pages
...shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd his pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— towards the river, and passing a well which trinkles down into the Doon, where formerly stood a thorn,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...to a hill, 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." which opening, they went in and there saw a fairie queen." But James also especially says, that the... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...shape o' heast ; A towzic tyke, hlack, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd his pipes and 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 hy some... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...shape o'beast; A touzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was bis charge; He screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'il the de/ul in their last dresses; And, by some devilish... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...o' beast ; A touzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screw VI the pipes, and 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... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...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' did dirl.— Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 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 a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round, like open presses; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; 4* And by some... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 440 pages
...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' did dirl. — Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
 | Henrietta Dumont - 1852 - 330 pages
...o' beast ; A towzio 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 like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 792 pages
...o' beast; A towzic tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd the # — Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
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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... 
