 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1865 - 470 страници
...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 - 252 страници
...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 - 784 страници
...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 - 596 страници
...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 - 906 страници
...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 - 498 страници
...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 - 1172 страници
...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 - 366 страници
...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 - 613 страници
...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! 
