 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1865 - Počet stránok 470
...little ones provide ; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov"d at...noblest work of God : ' And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind ; What is a lordling's pomp ! a cumbrous load,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - Počet stránok 252
...preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,...noblest work of God ;' And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, certainly The cottage leaves the palace far behind ; What is a lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - Počet stránok 784
...preside From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs. That makes her loved at home, revered abroad ; Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, " An honest man's the noblest work of God j" 1 T>vid. * Saint John. 3 An Island ID the Archipelago, where John IB unpposed to have * 710... | |
 | 1918 - Počet stránok 596
...UPSTANDING Such Scottish types as this village blacksmith inspired Burns to philosophize: "Princes ahd lords are but the breath of kings; An honest man's the noblest work of God." £-0 Photograph by W. R«d "I AM, INDEED, SIR, A SURGEON TO OLD SHOES" " Long may the hardy sons... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1884 - Počet stránok 906
...also reared a monument to his memory, on which they inscribed the lines — " Princes and lords'are but the breath of kings, An honest man's the noblest work of God." CA DAVIS. an& f entlimlg* THE beloved Apostle John was in four remarkable ways honoured above... | |
 | 1901 - Počet stránok 498
...preside. Prom scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings;...noblest work of God:" And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - Počet stránok 1172
...77—80) 20 From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered M M ,OG L M God!" (1. 163-166) 21 O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent,... | |
 | Peter B. Waite - 1994 - Počet stránok 366
...Robert Burns's "The Cottar's Saturday Night" that speaks to this argument: From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at...breath of kings, "An honest man's the noblest work of God." 31 In the lecture halls of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and St Andrew's this came to be a democracy... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - Počet stránok 613
...unsentimental portrait of agricultural family life, written in Scots and English. From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at...are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noble work of God:' And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The Cottage leaves the Palace far behind:... | |
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And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind: What is a lordling's pomp? A cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of Hell, in wickedness refin'd ! O Scotia! 
