 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...chiefly in their hearts with grace divine 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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1855 - 480 pages
...quoting the lines of Burns : — " From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs ; These make her loved at home, revered abroad. Princes and lords are but the breath of kinfts ; An honest man's the noblest work of God." The effect was overwhelming. We happened, in leaving... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. Prom scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad : Princes...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,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 pages
...chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad : Princes..." An honest man's the noblest work of God :" ' And ccrtes, in fair virtue's heav'nly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind ; What is a lordling's... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs. That makes her loved at home, revered abroad; Princes...breath of kings, " An honest man's the noblest work of God;" I David. ! Saint John. • An Island in the Archipelago, where John U luppoMd to have written... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...preside six. Fi>m 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 rrrtin in fair virtue's hcav'nly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 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... | |
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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! 
