From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at 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 road, The cottage leaves... The poetical works of Robert Burns - Page 94by Robert Burns - 1814 - 604 pagesFull view - About this book
| Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...preside 16. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But, chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur spring*. That makes her loved at home, revered abroad ; Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,... | |
| James White - 1859 - 108 pages
...Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But, chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. From scenes...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... | |
| Geography - 1918 - 596 pages
...UPSTANDING Such Scottish types as this village blacksmith inspired Burns to philosophize: "Princes ahd lords are but the breath of kings; An honest man's the noblest work of God." £-0 Photograph by W. R«d "I AM, INDEED, SIR, A SURGEON TO OLD SHOES" " Long may the hardy sons... | |
| London metrop. tabernacle - 1884 - 906 pages
...also reared a monument to his memory, on which they inscribed the lines — " Princes and lords'are but the breath of kings, An honest man's the noblest work of God." CA DAVIS. an& f entlimlg* THE beloved Apostle John was in four remarkable ways honoured above... | |
| 1901 - 498 pages
...preside. Prom scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings;...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... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...77—80) 20 From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered M M ,OG L M God!" (1. 163-166) 21 O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent,... | |
| Peter B. Waite - Education - 1994 - 366 pages
...that... There is much in Robert Burns's "The Cottar's Saturday Night" that speaks to this argument: From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs,...breath of kings, "An honest man's the noblest work of God." 31 In the lecture halls of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and St Andrew's this came to be a democracy... | |
| Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...intimate, affectionate, unsentimental portrait of agricultural family life, written in Scots and English. From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs,...are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noble work of God:' And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The Cottage leaves the Palace far behind:... | |
| Leith Davis - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 240 pages
...cotter's family together as national subjects. Burns suggests that it is "From scenes like these [that] old SCOTIA'S grandeur springs / That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad" (ll. 163-64). Other elements in the poem suggest a different kind of national imagining than the singing... | |
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