 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1876 - Počet stránok 840
...brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak. And soon they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek. Gie...Nature's fire ! That's a' the learning I desire. Then though I trudge through dub and mire, At plough or cart, My muse, though namely in attire, May touch... | |
 | Johanne Clare - 1987 - Počet stránok 248
...qualifications entitle you to instruct or entertain us?"9 Burns could reply with blithe assurance: Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning...drudge thro' dub' an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, tho' hamely in attire May touch the heart. 10 The notion that creative genius lies beyond the pale... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - Počet stránok 764
...conceited hashes, Confuse their brains in colledge-classes! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek! The poet then adroitly maneuvers the poem back to himself and his correspondent before wittily signing... | |
 | Donald A. Low - 1974 - Počet stránok 474
...conceited Hashes, Confuse their brains in Colledge-classes \ They gang in Stirks, and come out Asses, Plain truth to speak ; An' syne they think to climb...drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, tho' namely in attire, May touch the heart. NOTES 1 To David McWhinnie [17 April 1786]. Letters I,... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - 1998 - Počet stránok 1018
...lines of this stanza from "Epistle toJ.L. L*****k [John Lapraik], an Old Scots Bard. April 1st, 1785": Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning...drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, tho' hamely in attire, May touch the heart. These are the same sentiments that Burns had prefixed to... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1995 - Počet stránok 866
...conceited Hashes, Confuse their brains in Colledge-dasses! They gang in Stirks, and come out Asses, Plain truth to speak: An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek! In the following stanza Burns asks for 'ae spark o' Nature's fire' so that 'My Muse, tho' hamely in... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - Počet stránok 974
...Confuse their brains in Colledge-classes! 13 They gang in Stirks, and come out Asses, [young bullocks] Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb...By dint o' Greek! Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, [one] That's a' the learning I desire; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, [plough]... | |
 | Počet stránok 532
...stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak ; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus " Gie me ane spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire...Muse, though hamely in attire, May touch the heart." BURNS, THE ARTIST. He was an artist — a painter of pictures. This of the brook : " Whyles owre a... | |
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A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o 
