 | 1857 - Počet stránok 336
...ebbing still, And still the clap plays clatter." Or in that better-known stanza, — " Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monio a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait -wad lea'c us And e'en devotion... | |
 | 1857 - Počet stránok 654
...Churchman, can only be accounted for by the fact that the prayer has not yet been answered in his case, " O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us." The work is a labored, and in some respects an ingenious attempt, to make the Author of the " Search... | |
 | Alice Fay - 1857 - Počet stránok 370
...CHAPTER XXIII. Oh had some Power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us ! It had frae mong a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait, had lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion! ROBERT BURNS. " ALL the worlds' a stage and all the men and women... | |
 | 1857 - Počet stránok 656
...only be accounted for by the fact that the prayer has not yet been answered in his case, " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us." trouble, and therefore Mr. CRAIK has done well to take it for them. His " Defense" is a patient and... | |
 | M. M. Bell - 1858 - Počet stránok 332
...said William. Edmund shrugged his shoulders, but was silent. 150 CHAPTEE XVIII. TRAITS OF CHABACTER. " O, wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us." BURNS. NEXT morning Jane waited in vain for her cousin to come and read to her. Noon was her appointed... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - Počet stránok 630
...humour, traced its impudently ambitious career; and then, finding good in everything, he exclaims — "O wad some Power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae mcyiy a blunder free us, And foolish notion. What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, Affd ev'n fie'votion... | |
 | John Epps - 1859 - Počet stránok 330
...struggle is indicated by DEATH : and yet the old systemist is the rational practitioner. O watl some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! 394. In regard to other symptoms in homoeopathic relationship with Calcarea, an opportunity will... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - Počet stránok 312
...happer's ebbing still, And still the clap plays clatter." Or in that better-known stanza,— " Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an* gait wad lea'e us And e'en devotion I" Burns had an ambition... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - Počet stránok 766
...unaffecting elegance, and chill philosophy," — the very terms most applicable to his own tragedy "IRENE." " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us.' — BURNS. <? Tickell toW Dr Voung, that in the following couplet of his elegy on the death of Addison,... | |
 | Horace - 1860 - Počet stránok 664
...that which Horace dwells upon in this satire : " О wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel s as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion." 3. Sardns. See note, Sat. i., 2, 3. The epithet seems here contemptuous, as the Sardinians were in... | |
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O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And e'en devotion ! 1 Trimmings. 
