 | 1840 - 368 Seiten
...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...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 ! Oh Scotia... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 Seiten
...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 the palace far behind ; What is lordling's pomp ? A cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell,... | |
 | 1841 - 306 Seiten
...Princes and lords ere but the breath o kings, "An honest man's the noblest work o: God;" Ana certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road The cottage leaves the palace far behind What is a lordling's pomp! a cumbrom load, Disguising of thn wretch of human kind Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined!... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 Seiten
...breath of kings, * An honest man 's the noblest work of God :r* And certes, in fair virtue's heav'nly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind : What is a lordling's pomp 1 a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human-kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...Princes and Lords are but the breath of Kings, 'An honest man's the noblest work of God : ' And certes,1 in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves...: What is a lordling's pomp ? — a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 Seiten
...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...; What is a lordling's pomp ! — a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 236 Seiten
...reading the Cottar's Saturday Night: and we entirely go along with Burns when he says, " And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind;" but there, we think, he ought to have stopped, or illustrated the truth in a milder manner than " What... | |
 | 1744 - 596 Seiten
...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...behind : What is a lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refln'd ! O Scotia... | |
 | 1846 - 436 Seiten
...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...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! 102 DISDAIN... | |
 | John W. Curtis - 1846 - 180 Seiten
...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 the palace far behind. * * « * O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may... | |
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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 is a lordling's pomp? 
