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The Works of Robert Burns: General correspondence, including pieces of ... - Página 329
por Robert Burns - 1806
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The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a ..., Volumen2

Robert Burns - 1800 - 520 páginas
...the alehouse ingle, with his tippling cronies, you have delineated nature Avith a humour and naivetS, that would do honour to Matthew Prior ; but when you...; " Coffins stood round like open presses, " That shewed the dead in their last dresses ; ff And by some devilish cantrip slight, " Each in his cauld...
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The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on ..., Volumen2

David Irving - 1804 - 524 páginas
...charge : He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. VOL. II. 3 R Coffins stood round, like open presses ; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses j And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light. By this heroic Tarn was...
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Views in North Britain: Illustrative of the Works of Robert Burns ...

James Sargant Storer, John Greig (engraver) - 1805 - 112 páginas
...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 dresse*; And by some devilish cantrip slight. Each in its cauld hand held a light; By which heroic...
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A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns

George Gleig - 1812 - 142 páginas
...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 poetical works of Robert Burns

Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 páginas
...his charge: He screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl! Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Collins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some dev'Iish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light ; By which heroic Tam was able To note...
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The prose works of Robert Burns; containing his letters and correspondence ...

Robert Burns - 1819 - 658 páginas
...with a humour and niiivete that would do honour to Matthew Prior; but when you describe the infernal orgies of the witches' sabbath, and the hellish scenery...presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; Ami by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in his caulcl hand held a light.' But when I came to the...
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The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His ...

Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 páginas
...the hellish scenery in which they are exhibited, you display a power of imagination that Shakspcare himself could not have exceeded. I know not that I...horrible fancy than the following : " Coffins stood round Ilk* open presses, That shnw'd the dead in their last drones ; And by some devilish cantrip slight,...
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Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volumen2

1831 - 426 páginas
...was his charge : 1 I e screw 'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' diidirl.— Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last drosses; And by some devilish cantraip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic...
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Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal ...

James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 páginas
...midnight hags," within the walls of Auld Kirk Alloway, Satan himself being bag-piper to their dancing. " Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd...dead in their last dresses ; And, by some devilish cantrip-sleight, Each in his cauld hand held a light ; By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the...
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Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal ...

James Montgomery - 1833 - 368 páginas
...the walls of Auld Kirk Alloway, Satan himself being bag-piper to their dancing. " Coffins stood hmnd, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And, by some devilish cantrip-sleight, Each in his cauld hand held a light ; By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the...
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