 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 Seiten
...sail, It makes an unco lee-way. * * * * Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside...moving why they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark hopper company grave idle unlucky exchange oft, more, rest quick motion great go, trifle Who made the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 530 Seiten
...temptation. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Tho' they may gang a kenning wrang To step aside is human: One point must still...as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord, its various tone, Each... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - 634 Seiten
...censure the unhappy subject of them. " Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman, Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human." Poor Burns seems to have been of the class to which we all more or less belong, who in the words of... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 Seiten
...touching appeal for charitable judgments:— " Gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin* wrang ! To step aside...as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it. " Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us; He knows each chord—its various tone, Each... | |
 | J. D. Bell - 1860 - 478 Seiten
...fellow-mortals the sweet counsel: " Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler, sister woman ! Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang. To step aside is human....lamely can ye mark, How far, perhaps, they rue it." Many causes conspire to give rise to our aptitudes. Things and agents external to us, affect us far... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 Seiten
...attractions—born of modesty and love. — Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang ; To step aside is human...as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord—its various tone, Each... | |
 | 1861 - 790 Seiten
...pardon, in our opinion, improved. " Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human." That such a suggestion is not altogether out of place, we think the reader will acknowledge, after... | |
 | 1862 - 226 Seiten
...often as we close the memoirs of men,—good, bad, and indifferent, we are led to exclaim with Bums, "One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it." Fiction has a higher aim:—the narration and illustration of that ever-continuous struggle within... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 440 Seiten
...convenience snug, A treacherous inclination— But, let me whisper i' your lug, Ye're aiblins nae temptation. Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside...as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 358 Seiten
...me whisper i' your lug, ear Ye're aiblins nae temptation. perhaps Then gently scan your brother man, To step aside is human: One point must still be greatly...as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord — its various tone,... | |
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Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. VIII. Who made the heart, 'us He alone Decidedly can try us,... 
