 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...  The Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Life - Page xxxiiby Robert Burns - 1849 - 425 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Animals in literature - 1855 - 120 pages
...virtue's heavenly 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 refined ! Oh Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...breath of kings, " 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, 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
...breath of kings, " 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, O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...breath of kings, ' 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...kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! Oh Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my wannest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...breath of kings, "An honest man's the noblest work of God:" And certo.s,1 in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind : What...load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied iu arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...have written the Moll of Revtlatiom. t Prjcatljr veatment. And certes, 1 in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind: What...a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft [lie wretch of human-kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined! O Scotia! my dear, my native... | |
 | 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...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! my dear, my... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...;" but there, we think, he ought to have stopped, or illustrated the truth in a milder manner than " What is a lordling's pomp ?— a cumbrous load, Disguising...kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined." Our moral nature revolts with a sense of injustice from the comparison of the wickedness of one class... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...;" but there, we think, he ought to have stopped, or illustrated the truth in a milder manner than " What is a lordling's pomp ? — a cumbrous load, Disguising...kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined." Our moral nature revolts with a sense of injustice from the comparison of the wickedness of one class... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...;" but there, we think, he ought to have stopped, or illustrated the truth in a milder manner than " What is a lordling's pomp ? — a cumbrous load, Disguising...kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined." Our moral nature revolts with a sense of injustice from the comparison of the wickedness of one class... | |
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