 | Hannah D. Burdon - 1839 - 980 pages
...began to ply the work as if no other occupation had engaged the retirement of the morning. CHAPTER X. And certes in fair virtue's heavenly road The cottage leaves the palace far behind. BURNS. CATHERINE de Medicis had scarcely completed these hasty arrangements ere a lacquey of the palace,... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...home, revered abroad : 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...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 - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...home, revered abroad : 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...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 pages
...abroad : 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...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 pages
...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... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...home, revered abroad; 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...; 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 Wilson - 1845 - 266 pages
...of all when 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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...home, revered abroad : 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...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... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...home, rever'd abroad : 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...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... | |
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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 ? A cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind! Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness... 
