| John Buchan - 1923 - 746 Seiten
...lawlessness and debaucheries. Robert Burns. (F ran On fatnie*tt, Kfimyth.) Leeze me on drink ! it gles us mair Than either school or college ; It kindles wit, it waukens lear, It pangs us fou o' knowledge. Be't whisky-gill, or penny wheep, Or onle stronger potion, It never... | |
| Walter Scott - 1923 - 862 Seiten
...clatters. While thick and thrang, and loud and Inn:, Wi' logic and wi' Scripture, They raise a din that in the end Is like to breed a rupture O' wrath that day. BURNS. A PLENTIFUL entertainment, at the Duke of Argyle's cost, regaled the reverend gentlemen who... | |
| Robert Burns, James Wilson - 1925 - 372 Seiten
...While thick an' thrang, an' loud an' lang, Wi' Logic, an' wi' Scripture, They raise a din, that, in the end, Is like to breed a rupture O' wrath that...me on Drink ! it gies us mair Than either School or Colledge : It kindles Wit, it waukens Lear, It pangs us fou o' Knowledge. Be't whisky-gill or penny-wheep,... | |
| 1896 - 432 Seiten
...commentators Thick an' thrang, and loud an' lang, Wi' logic and wi' Scripture, They raise a din, that, in the end, Is like to breed a rupture O' wrath that day." In Burns's day, it was kept by George Gibson and his wife, Agnes Ronald, possibly a sister of the John... | |
| 1927 - 568 Seiten
...Remonstrance to the PRESIDENT and CONGRESS of the United States. [Written by a North Carolina Planter] Leeze me on drink! it gies us mair Than either school or college, It kindles wit, it waukens lear, It pangs us fou o' knowledge. BURNS, Ye choice of a' the thirteen states, On whom power, wealth... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1885 - 628 Seiten
...that we have Burns, convivial, genuine, delightful, here : — 'Leeze me on drink I it gies us m«ir Than either school or college; It kindles wit, it waukens lair, It pongs us fou o' knowledge. Be 't whisky gill or penny wheep Or ony stronger potion, It never fails,... | |
| Ralph Knight - 1959 - 246 Seiten
...thick an' thrang, an' loud an' lang, crowded Wi' logic an' wi' Scripture, They raise a din, that in the end Is like to breed a rupture O' wrath that day. Leeze me on drink! it gies us mair Blessings on; more Than either school or college; It kindles wit,... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1973 - 508 Seiten
...it. Many of his admirers will tell us that we have Burns, con35 vivial, genuine, delightful, here — 'Leeze me on drink! it gies us mair Than either school...it waukens lair, It pangs us fou o' knowledge. Be't wh1sky gill or penny wheep Or ony stronger potion. It never fails, on drinking deep, 5 To kittle up... | |
| Mark Pollman - 1998 - 188 Seiten
...Gives genius better discerning. the art of thinking, But learned all moods and figures of good drinking Leeze me on drink, it gies us mair Than either school or college: It kindles wit, it waukens lear, It pangs us fu' of knowledge, Be't whisky gill or pennywheep Or any stronger potion, It never... | |
| Alex Davis, Lee M. Jenkins - 2000 - 318 Seiten
...meaning 'small beer' and one most familiar from a stanza of Burns' carnivalesque poem 'The Holy Fair', Leeze me on Drink! it gies us mair Than either School or Colledge: It kindles Wit, it waukens Lear, If pangs us fou o' Knowledge. Be't whisky-gill or penny-wheep,... | |
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