 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the hest, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with 9race divine preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at... | |
 | 1918 - 596 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...that... There is much in Robert Burns's "The Cottar's Saturday Night" that speaks to this argument: From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs,...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 Seiten
...intimate, affectionate, unsentimental portrait of agricultural family life, written in Scots and English. From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs,...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:... | |
 | Leith Davis - 1998 - 240 Seiten
...cotter's family together as national subjects. Burns suggests that it is "From scenes like these [that] old SCOTIA'S grandeur springs / That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad" (ll. 163-64). Other elements in the poem suggest a different kind of national imagining than the singing... | |
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From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noblest work of God'; And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves... 
