 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 ページ
...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, " An honest man's the noblest work of God ;" 1 T> vi-l. - Snlnt Jobo. • >n jKlin-i lii the Archipelago, where John t» supposed to have... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - 630 ページ
...he has left in the land of his birth, exclaims with rapt emotion : — " From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at...breath of kings, An honest man's the noblest work of God." From pole to pole, and from Pekin to Vancouver's Island, the centenary of Burns will command... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 530 ページ
...in their hearts with grace divine preside XIX. Fi)m scenes like these old ScotiaV grandeur spring! That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad ; Princes...breath of kings, " An honest man's the noblest work of God ; n And certes in fair virtue's heav'nly road, What is a lordling's pomp ? — a cumbrous load,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 ページ
...preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandcur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,...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,... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - 634 ページ
...think, can be better than this — " From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makee her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad ¡ Princes and lords...breath of kings, An honest man's the noblest work of God." (Cheers.) I think that a man who gave vent to such expressions is well entitled to our admiration.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 ページ
...Forest." 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, " An honest man's the noblest work of God :" Aud certes,1 in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind : What... | |
 | James White - 1859 - 118 ページ
...ones provide; But, chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are hut the hreath of kings, " An honest man's the noblest work of GOD ;" And certes, in fair virtue's... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1859 - 284 ページ
...preside. 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, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God :"2 And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the... | |
 | James Peddie (of Edinburgh.) - 1860 - 200 ページ
...like these anld Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad ; Princes ;ind lords are but the breath of kings—- An honest man's the noblest work of God." This, as well as Montgomery's description of home, would appear to hundreds of our children,... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 ページ
...preside. 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 ; " An honest man 's the noblest work of God : " And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the... | |
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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 refin'd ! O Scotia! 
