Shanter

The "Twa Dogs," (one of the best) with the conversation between Cesar and Luath, the "Brigs of Ayr," "the Cotter's Saturday Night," "Tam O'Shanter" -- all will be long read and re-read and admired, and ever deserve to be.

November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

The exuberant power in the religious satires and the narrative 'Tam o' Shanter 'is undeniable, but they belong to a lower order of work.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

Scotland, and everyone who has read Burns has heard of Alloway Kirk, and of the "unco sight" which met _Tam o 'Shanter's_ eye there, who, looking into the haunted kirk, saw witches, Evil Spirits, and Old Nick himself.

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen

But a translator is bound to interpret all as best he may: and an attempt to write Tam o 'Shanter's language by one who was not Tam o' Shanter's countryman would, I fear, result in something more ridiculous still.

Theocritus, translated into English Verse 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus

Good News from Ghent to Aix, Tam o 'Shanter's Famous Ride_, and all the others.

The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way 1924

We saw the room – the low-ceilinged, humble little room where once a cotter's son was 'royal born by right divine,' and we explored the ruins of the old Alloway Kirk made classic forever by Tam O'Shanter's adventures.

The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Lucy Maud 1917

And there was the van going helter-skelter, and feeling like Tam o'Shanter's mare (the old man said), and he on her barebacked.

The Rising of the Court Henry Lawson 1894

The road from town to the monument was the way of Tam o 'Shanter's wild ride, or almost the same; only there's a tram-line now to spoil the romance, if one chooses to let it be spoiled.

The Heather-Moon 1889

It was good to escape from the gay, meretricious gardens to the graveyard of Alloway Auld Kirk, where Tam o 'Shanter's witches danced, and where Burns's father lies buried.

The Heather-Moon 1889

One of these was called the Maiden of the Covine, and was usually, like Tam o'Shanter's Nannie, a girl of personal attractions, whom Satan placed beside himself, and treated with particular attention, which greatly provoked the spite of the old bags, who felt themselves insulted by the preference.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885