 It's no in titles nor in rank ; It's no in wealth like Lon'on bank, To purchase peace and rest ; It's no in making muckle mair : It's no in books ; it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may...  Sidney Roemlee: A Tale of New England - Page 47by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1827Full view - About this book
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...in makin muckle mair ; It's no in books, it's no in lear, To mak us truly blest ; If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise,...aye's the part aye That makes us right or wrang." Through all these Epistles we hear him exulting in the consciousness of his own genius, and pouring... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...in makin muckle mair ; It's no in books, it's no in lear, To mak us truly blest ; If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise,...aye's the part aye That makes us right or wrang." Through all these Epistles we hear him exulting in the consciousness of his own genius, and pouring... | |
 | William Howitt - 1857 - 736 pages
...makin muckle mair ; It's no in books ; it's no in lear ; To make us truly blest ; If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise,...nor pleasures, Could make us happy lang : The heart aJ-'I the part ay, That makes us right or wrang." So speaks the humble ploughman of Ayrshire, the still... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...makin' muokle mair,3 It's no in books, it's no in lear',* To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise,...rich, or great, But never can be blest ; Nae treasures or pleasures Could make us happy lang ; 'The heart aye's the part aye That maks us right or wrang.... | |
 | Jonathan Bayley (Rev. DD.) - 1858 - 660 pages
...lovefailure, h ut * n obedience to the divine injunction, " Ye must be society nt n- II' happiness have not her seat And centre in the breast; We may be wise, or rich, or great, Bnt never can he blest. No treasures, nor pleasures, Could make us happy long; The heart ay's the part... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...In making mucklc notr, It'a DO In books, It's no In lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre In the breast. We may be wise, or rich, or great. Bat never can be blest: Nae treasures, nor pleasures, Could make us happy lang; Toe 4*art aye's the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 pages
...mucklo mair ,' much It's no in books, it's no in lair, learning To mak us truly blest ; If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise,...heart aye's the part aye That makes us right or wrang. wrong Think ye, that sic as you and I, such Wha drudge and drive through wet and dry, who Wi' never-ceasing... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1859 - 284 pages
...makin' muckl-e mair ;5 It 's no in books ; it 's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise,...nor pleasures, Could make us happy lang ; The heart ay 's the part ay, That makes us right or wrang. Think ye, that sic as you and I, Wha drudge and drive... | |
 | Severn river - 1859 - 408 pages
...makin' muckle mair: It 's no in books, it 's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise,...nor pleasures, Could make us happy lang; The heart aye 's the part aye, That makes us right or wrang. BURNS. ¿Ktáv в' екоита TÓI><) ¿Se^áfjLtjv... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1917 - 362 pages
...philosophy of benevolence with which Shaftesbury sought to warm the chill of eighteenth-century thought : The heart aye's the part aye That makes us right or wrang. The mood of this poem is Burns's middle mood, lying between the black melancholy of his poems of despair... | |
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