 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pagina’s
...Which even to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowered, amazed and curions, The mirth and fun grew fast of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful t reeled, they set, they crossed, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies... | |
 | James Allan Mair - 1872 - 422 pagina’s
...Which ev'n to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glow'r'd, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious ; The piper loud and louder blew; The dancers quick and quicker flew ; They reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies to the wark,... | |
 | James Brown (editor, of Elgin.) - 1873 - 406 pagina’s
...his pipes, and garrin' them skirl. Burns beats all other poets to sticks at a witch-dance. Listen — The piper loud and louder blew, The dancers quick and quicker flew, They reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit. That was dancing in em-nest, and... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 pagina’s
...between the last accented syllable of the first section and the first accented syllable of the second. The piper loud and louder blew ; The dancers quick and quicker flew. — BURNS. These steps both reach, and leach thee shall To come by thrift, to shift withal. — TUSSER.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pagina’s
...Which even to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowered, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious : The piper loud and louder blew; The dancers quick and quicker flew; They reeled, they set, they crossed, they cleekit, Till ilkft carlin sweat and reekit, And coost her duddies... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1874 - 324 pagina’s
...Burns employs it with great effect when describing what Tain o' Shanter saw in the Dance of Witches:— The piper loud and louder blew, The dancers quick and quicker flew, They reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit, Till ilka carline swat and reekit. And in his epistle to James Smith,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pagina’s
...Which even to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowered, amazed and curious. The mirth and fun grew fast and furious : The piper loud and louder blew ; The dancers quick and quicker new ; They reeled, they set, they crossed, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin sweat and reekit, And coost... | |
 | 1876 - 564 pagina’s
...Which e'en to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowred, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious : The piper loud and louder blew ; The dancers quick and quicker flew ; They reeled, they set, they crossed, they cleekit. Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 pagina’s
...Which ev'n to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowered, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious : The piper loud and louder blew ; The dancers quick and quicker flew ; They reeled, they set, they crossed, they cleekit, Till ilka earlin swat and reekit, And coost her daddies... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pagina’s
...to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tamrnie glowered, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast anil furious : The piper loud and louder blew ; The dancers quick and quicker flew; They reeled, they set, they crossed, they dec-kit, Till ilka carlin sweat and reekit, Anil CDost her duddies... | |
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Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to the heft ; Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which ev"n to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious : The piper loud and louder blew... 
