 | 1872 - 830 pages
...in a glory of color and life which puts all such ghostly painting to shame : "Bring a Scotsman from his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say,...there's the foe, He has nae thought but how to kill '1 wa at a blow. Nae cauld faint-hearted doublings tease him ; Death comes — wi' fearless eye he... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1872 - 778 pages
...Till skelp — a shot — they're aff, a' throw ther, To save their skin. '28 But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An' there 's the foe, lie has nae thought but how to kill 29 Nae cauld, faint-hearted doublings tease him... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1873 - 152 pages
...sheep and deer. Here again :— " But bring a Scotsman frae his hitt, Clap in his cheek a Highlan' gill, Say such is royal George's will, An' there's the foe : He has na thought but how to kill Twa at a blow." There is surely much in the little, that all he wants in... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1873 - 154 pages
...for sheep and deer. Here again:— " But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highlan' gill, Say such is royal George's will, An' there's the foe : He has na thought but how to kill Twa at a blow." There is surely much in the little, that all he wants in... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1875 - 474 pages
...proofs has borne witness that Bring a Briton fra Us bill, ***** Say, such is Royal George's will. And there's the foe, He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Xae amid, faint-hearted doublings tease him ; Death comes, wi' fearless eye he sees him ; Wi' bluidy... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1876 - 626 pages
...or rin, Till skelp — a shot — they're aff, a' throther To save their skin. But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill,...is royal George's will, An' there's the foe, He has пае thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld faint-hearted doublings tease him; Death comes,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1880 - 1024 pages
...uncertainty To stan' or rin, Till skelp — a shot — they're aff, a'thr'owther, *i To save their skin. But bring a Scotchman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek...a Highland gill, Say such is royal George's will, And there's the foe, — He has nae thought, but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 pages
...or rin, Till skelp— a shot— they 're aff, a' throwther, To save their skin. But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, Such is royal George's will, An' there 's the foe, He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doubtings... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1879 - 612 pages
...sign was the portrait of Burns, with the following lines, also from his own song : " Tak' a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say such is Royal George's will, And there's the foe: He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow." The Royal Standard Tavern,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1879 - 566 pages
...Till skelp — a shot — they're aff, a' throu'ther,3 To save their skin. But bring a Scotsman fra his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, And there's the foe ; He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doublings... | |
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But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An there's the foe! 
