 | 1909 - 644 sivua
...the breath of kings, " An honest man's the noblest work of God: And certes, in fair virtues heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What...human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd." The Song of the Ploughman shows Burns in his native element. He himself in a letter to a... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1926 - 734 sivua
...breath of kings, " An honest man's the noblest work of God ; " And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind ; What...Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arte of hell, in wickedness relia'«! I 0 Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish... | |
 | Bess Streeter Aldrich - 1926 - 296 sivua
...good sense. "Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, An honest man's the noblest work of God. The cottage leaves the palace far behind. What is...pomp? A cumbrous load Disguising oft the wretch of humankind" He wound the clock. It had been Gramma's. He could remember seeing the little speckled church... | |
 | 1928 - 542 sivua
...against the great. The lines in " The Cotter's Saturday Night "— ' What is a lordling's pomp?—a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human...kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined! " are well known; and the same thought occurs in the first " Epistle to Davie "— Yet, as the verses... | |
 | 1926 - 780 sivua
...the breath of kings, "An honest man's the noblest work of God": And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What...human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd! xx O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent! Long may... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1994 - 676 sivua
...breath of kings, ‘An honest man ‘a the noblest work of God;' And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What...cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, 170 Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refln'd! O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 2001 - 598 sivua
...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: What...human kind, Studied in arts of Hell, in wickedness refin'd! Tam O'Shanrer (1791) was a racing tale of a drunk man pursued by witches and spirits while... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 2001 - 594 sivua
...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: What...human kind, Studied in arts of Hell, in wickedness refin'd! Tam 0 ‘Shanter (1791) was a racing tale of a drunk man pursued by witches and spirits while... | |
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the noblest work of God !" And certes, in fair virtue's heav'nly 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 refined ! XX.... 
