 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 pages
...each selfish end : My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise : To you I sing, in simple Scottuh lays, The lowly train in life's sequester'd scene; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways j What Aitken in a cottage would have heen ; Ah ! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween.... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...selfish end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise : To you I sing, in simple Scottish lay.", The lowly train in life's sequester'd scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; [been ; What Aitlten in a cottage would havt Ah ! tho* his worth unknown, fur happier there» I ween!... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...With honest pride I scorn each selfish end ; My dearest meed a friend's esteem and praise ; To you I a | A**** in a cottage would have been ¡ Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween. tt... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, English - 1840 - 872 pages
...friend's esteem and praise : To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequestered ! ii. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; • "... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...With honest pride I scorn each selfish end ; My dearest meed a friend's esteem and praise ; To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in...native feelings strong, the guileless ways : What A**** in a cottage would have been, AL ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, ween. November... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...With honest pride 1 scorn each selfish end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise ; To you I sing in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's...scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; VV hat Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho* his worth unknown, far happier there, 1 ween.... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...With honest pride I scorn each selfish end : My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise : To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in...native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aitken in a cottage would have heen ; Ah ! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween. II. Novemher... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...friend's esteem and praise : To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequestered scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless...ween ! November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh, The blackening... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...With honest pride I scorn each selfish end, My dearest meed a friend's esteem and praise. To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in...AIKEN in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his own worth unknown, far happier there I ween ! November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shoit'ning... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...impossible to peruse the following stanzas without feeling the force of tenderness and truth: — " November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short...near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the plengh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes,... | |
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My lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise: To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequester'd... 
