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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... "
Specimens of the British Poets: Whitehead, 1785, to Anstey, 1805 - Page 264
edited by - 1819
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The poetical works of Robert Burns

Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...: And, vow ! 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, A winnock-buuker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and...
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The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a ..., Volume 3

Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 364 pages
...vow ! Tam saw an uneo sight; Warloeks and witehes in a danee ; Nae eotillion brent new ft-ae Franee, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnoek b!mker in the east, There sat auld Niek, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, blaek, grim, and...
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The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life ..., Issue 672, Volume 3

Robert Burns - 1816 - 406 pages
...; And, vow ! 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. A winnock- bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and...
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Lectures on the English Poets

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...light, And, vow ! Tam saw an unco sight ! Warlocks and witches in a dance. Nae light cotillion new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. As winnock-bunker, in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ,A touzie tyke, black, grim,...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reelsPut life and mettle in their heels. As winnock-bunker, in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A touzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge; He screw'd the pipes, and gart...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 38

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...light; And, vow ! Tam saw an unco sight ! Warlocks and witches in a dance ; Nae cotillion brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels,...in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There set auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...; And, vow ! 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. A winnock bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and...
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The Anti-critic for Aug. 1821 and March 1822

sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 pages
...unco sight! Warlocks and witches in a dance ». « There sat auld Nick , in shape o' beast ; A towsie tyke , black , grim , and large , To gie them music was his charge ». — . « Tarn stood , like ane bewitch'd , And thought his very een enrich'd ; Even Satan glowr'd...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...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. A winnock bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o'beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and...
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Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect

Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...; And, vow ! 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. A winnock bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and...
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