 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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 the lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...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... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 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, O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 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, O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy... | |
 | Animals in literature - 1855 - 120 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 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...breath of kings, " An honest man's the noblest work of GOD;'" And certes, in fair virtue's heav'nly 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 refin'd ! 0 Scotia... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 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 ! Oh Scotia... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...Archipelago, where John U luppoMd to have written the Moll of Revtlatiom. t Prjcatljr veatment. And certes, 1 in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves...behind: What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft [lie wretch of human-kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined! O Scotia!... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...breath of kings, " An honest man's the noblest work of God ; " And rrrtin in fair virtue's hcav'nly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's pomp? — a cumbrous load, Disguising of the wretch of human-kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'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... 
