 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1900 - 490 էջ
...Till skelp — a shot — they're aff, a' throw'ther, To save their skin. XXIX. 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1904 - 632 էջ
...undecided, and sceptical in the moment of action.' It is a word and a blow. ' Bring but 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 ' No Popery ' cry, raised... | |
 | Herbert Compton - 1904 - 626 էջ
...with the spirit of his native master, who, when taken from his hills to the battlefield and told — There's the foe ; He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow ! No kennel can be complete without him. As a domestic watch and pet companion he is unsurpassed. Centuries... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1905 - 492 էջ
...lads were seldom backward to follow chief or laird leading them to war ; then Bring a Scotsman frac 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. As in the instance of the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1905 - 530 էջ
...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. xxx Nae ca iid, faint-hearted doubtings tease him ; Death comes, wi' fearless eye he sees him ; \Vi'... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1910 - 706 էջ
...rin, Till skelp — a shot — they're a(T, a' throwther, To save their skin. But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill,...such is royal George's will, An' there's the foe, lie has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doublings tease him ! Death... | |
 | Ian MacDonald - 1914 - 134 էջ
...hundred years later we find Burns claiming a similar virtue for Highland whisky : " But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill,...He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow." And again, in that " tale of truth," " Tarn o' Shanter "— " Wi' tippenny we fear nae evil ; Wi' usquebae... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1926 - 734 էջ
...swither* To stan' or rin, Till skelpb— a shot— they're aff, a' throw'ther," To save their skin. But bring a Scotchman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's wiff, An' there's the foe ! He has пае thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted... | |
 | Donald A. Low - 1995 - 474 էջ
...lying flat, he wav'd his hat, And cried, God save the King, man. SKIRVING. But bring a Scotchman firae 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 caul J 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! 
