 Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows...  The Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Life - Page xciby Robert Burns - 1849 - 425 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Jane Mackenzie - English fiction - 1829 - 226 pages
...Though they may gang a kennin wring To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dork, The moving why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord, its various tone. Each... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1830 - 340 pages
...In how far the " thoughtless follies " of the * " Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentlier sister woman — Tho' they may gang a kennin' wrang...as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. " poet did actually hasten his end, it is needles* to conjecture. They had their share, unquestionably,... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...gang a keim in' wrang; To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving rvhy they do It: And just as lamely can ye mark, How far...heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord— its various tone, Each spring, its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...in all likelihood, sat more heavily on such a being as Burns than a man of plain common sense might One point must still be greatly dark. The moving why they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How fer perhaps they rue it." guess,— or even a casual expression of discouraging tendency from the persons... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...gang a kennin wrong ; To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dork, The moving ufiy they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it vm. Who made the heart, 'Us He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone,... | |
 | Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 312 pages
...yours, " BELNOVINE." CHAPTER XXI. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman, Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human...as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it ! Who made the heart, 'tis He alone. BURNS. AN obscure hovel, scarcely rising to the name of cottage,... | |
 | 1833 - 480 pages
...gang a kenning wrong, To step aside is human. One point must still be greatly dark. The moving it-Ay they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark. How far perhaps they rue it. Who mndfl the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord, its various tone. Each... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 370 pages
...aiblins nae temptation. VII. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler siste^r woman ; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human...as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. VI. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone,... | |
 | Robert Burns - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 420 pages
...afterwards more poetically expressed in his " Address to the Rigidly Righteous." " Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Tho'...is human. One point must still be greatly dark, The reason why they do it ; And just as lamely can yc mark How far, perhaps, they rue it." The people of... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 236 pages
...scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Tbo* they may gang a kenning wrang; To step asi JQ is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just as namely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try... | |
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