 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - Počet stránok 490
...such college wits as "think to climb Parnassus / By dint o' Greek" would have annoyed Pope's critic: Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning...Muse, tho' hamely in attire, May touch the heart. Burns was by no means so untaught as this would seem to say, but the stanza constitutes at least a... | |
 | Ralph Knight - 1959 - Počet stránok 246
...know; from serves shovels stone-breakingoafs go; young bulls then Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, one That's a' the learning I desire; Then, tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire puddle At plough or cart, My Muse, tho' hamely in attire, May touch the heart. 0 for a spunk o' Allan's1... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1876 - Počet stránok 840
...and come out asses, Plain truth to speak. And soon they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek. Gie me ae spark o' 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... | |
 | Kenneth Knowles Ruthven - 1984 - Počet stránok 308
...prerequisite, the doctus poeta was obliged to lie low, his highest aspirations mocked by Robert Burns in 1785: Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.13 Since Burns's time revivals of obscurity have been relatively private affairs restricted... | |
 | 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...My Muse, tho' hamely in attire May touch the heart. 10 The notion that creative genius lies beyond the pale of learning's authority was hardly a new one,... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - Počet stránok 396
...[Lapraik], An Old Scotch Bard, lines 73-4 (Wordsworth: Play and Politics, p. 42n). The elided lines are: "Then tho" I drudge thro" dub an' mire / At pleugh or cart." 23 This process continues into the composition of Lyrical Ballads, and contributes to Wordsworth's... | |
 | Donald A. Low - 1974 - Počet stránok 474
...and come out Asses, Plain truth to speak ; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek ! Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning...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, p. 25.... | |
 | 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...Muse, tho' hamely in attire, May touch the heart. These are the same sentiments that Burns had prefixed to his own volume, in English: The Simple Bard,... | |
 | Jay Sanford Shivers - 2002 - Počet stránok 316
...combine to produce experiences that enrich the lives of those involved. 15 Nature-Oriented Activities Gie me ae spark o' nature's fire, that's a' the learning I desire. — Robert Burns NATURE is THE MATERIAL WORLD THAT SURROUNDS HUMAN BEINGS AND Exists independently... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - Počet stránok 974
...speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus 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] My Muse, tho' namely in attire, May touch the heart.' No amount of Greek or Latin, it seems,... | |
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An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek! Gie me ae spark o' nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My muse, tho' hamely in attire, May touch the heart. 
