 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 Seiten
...finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others sec us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion ; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And e'en devotion! ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH. I. EDINA ! Scotia's darling seat!"... | |
 | Denis Ignatius Moriarty - 1838 - 1016 Seiten
...heard him blylhely chaunting to himself the patriotic strain of Robert Bums: — " Edina, Scotia'* darling seat, All hail, thy palaces and tow'rs ; Where once, beneath a monarch's feet. Saw Legislation's sovereign pow'ra." CHAPTER XXI. I POP THE QUESTION. IN the evening I sought Flora,... | |
 | John Mather Austin - 1839 - 496 Seiten
...they would win, how differently would they conduct. 4 " O wad soi ai.: power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion." The most abandoned of the female sex, can and do flaunt in attire as gay and fashionable, as the respectable.... | |
 | 1870 - 552 Seiten
...arnom, teimlwn briodoldeb dymuniad y bardd Ysgotaidd — " О had some power the gif tie gie ns To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion." 6. Mae ein cyfansoddiad corffbrol yn rhan bwysig o honom ein Imnaiii; ас yn gymaint a bod y coríf... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 368 Seiten
...finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us I It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion ! ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH.f EDINA ! Scotia's darling seat ! All... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 Seiten
...makin' ! Thae winks and finger-ends, 1 dread, Are notice takin' ! О wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To usson, the writer chiel, A deathless name. (O An' foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion ! [" Homelier subjects... | |
 | 1841 - 435 Seiten
...; and hence the poet Burns well exclaims, " Oh, wad some power the giftie gi'e us, To see oursells as others see us ; It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. What airs in dress and gait wad lea' us, And e'en devotion !" Determined, however, as we for own part always are, to acquire... | |
 | 1842 - 362 Seiten
...violated or withheld. ON SHOOTING WITH A LONG BOW. Oh l wad some pow'r the giftie gie us, To see oursel's as others see us, It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. — BURNS. " SHOOTING with a long bow" is a figurative expression for a very prevalent, but contemptible... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 Seiten
...makin' ! Thaei winks and finger-ends I dread, Are notice takin' ! O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a...in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion ! ODE, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. OF . DWELLER in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation ! mark Who... | |
 | 1845 - 440 Seiten
...! О wad some power the giftie gie us To see ourseis as outers see us ! It wad frae monie a hlunder free us, And foolish notion : What airs in dress an'...lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion ! ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH. I. EDINA ! Scotia's darling seat ! All hail thy palaces and towers, Where once heneath a monarch's... | |
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