 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 520 sider
...following ; " 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 hand held a light." But when I came to the succeeding lines, my blood ran cold within me : " A knife a father's throat... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1801 - 464 sider
...fhaw'd " the dead in their lafl drefles ; And by fome devilifh cantrip '* flight, Each in its cauld ' 3 hand held a light. — By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly l4 table, A murderer's banes lS in gibbet>irns ; 1s Twa fpan-^lang,'7 wee,18 unchriften'd bairns ;... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1801 - 266 sider
...skirl," Till roof and rafters a' did dirj.13— Coffins stood round, like open presses,14 That shaw'd 1s the dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip " slight, Each in its cauld " hand held a light. — 1 Swate, fumes. * Noddle, head. 3 Car'd na, minded not. 4 Boddle,... | |
 | David Irving - 1804 - 524 sider
...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... | |
 | James Storer, John Greig - 1805 - 116 sider
...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...dresses; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's... | |
 | James Sargant Storer, John Greig (engraver) - 1805 - 112 sider
...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 622 sider
...exceeded. I know not that I have ever met with a picture of more horrible fancy than the following : " Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light." But when I came to the succeeding lines, my blood ran cold within me: " A knife a father's throat had... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 506 sider
...exceeded. I know not that I have ever met with a picture of more horrible fancy than the following: " Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd...cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light." But when I came to the succeeding lines, my blood ran cold within me: " A knife a father's throat had... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 sider
...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...dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light. — By \vJiioh heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 sider
...******* Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm." — (Vol. III. p. 327, 328.) '' Coffins stood round, like open presses, " That shaw'd...dresses; " And by some devilish cantrip slight, " Each in its cauld hand held a. light." (Ibid. p. 330.) There is much humour in a little song, composed by the... | |
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Coffins stood round, like open presses; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish... 
