 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 356 pages
...in their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light — By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet airns ; Twa span-lang, wee unchris'ten'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 236 pages
...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 banes in gibbet aims; Twa spun lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gah did... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ! Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns : A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...dead.in their last dresses ; And by some devilish eantrip slight, Each in its eauld hand held a light,— By which heroic Tam was able • To note upon the haly table, • A murderer's banes in gibbet airns ! Twa span-'lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns : A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, A garter, which... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...their last dresses ; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet airns ! Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns : A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...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 banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairua : A thief, new-cutted frac a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...And by some devilish cantraip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tarn et, if I was restless and discontented, I can safely say it was not so much o span lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief new cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...their last dresses ; And hy some devilish cantraip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, — , Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee things, todd hanes in gibbet aims ; Twa span lang, wee, uncbristen'd hairns . A thief new cutted frae a rape, Wi'... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 332 pages
...; And, by some devilish cantrip-sleight, Each in his cauld hand held a light ; By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, — A murderer's banes in gibbet-aims, Twa span-king wee unchristen'd bairns, A thief new cutted frae a rape, TVi' his last gasp... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust (Legendary figure) - 1840 - 360 pages
...in their last dresses ; And by some devlish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light, — By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbit aims; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new cutted frae a rape, WV his last... | |
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Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted; Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter, which a babe had strangled; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o... 
