LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a... Poems: Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Seite 176von Robert Burns - 1786 - 240 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1840 - 378 Seiten
...have sent you, Though it should serve nae other end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps...it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. Ye'll try the world soon, my lad, And, Andrew dear, believe me, Ye'll find mankind an unco squad, And... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 Seiten
...on their way, but they know not where t 'cast anchor or to land."— " And where the subject-theme may gang Let time and chance determine; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon." Your reciter, on the other hand, is apt to produc an oration quite out of keeping with the time, and... | |
| John Fisher - 1840 - 176 Seiten
...HONEYMOON. PART II. •••• THE COUNTRY. " Felices tu et amplius." ' And where the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon." BOOK I. 'T is at the altar weal or woe we find, The richest blessing, or the bitterest curse That flesh... | |
| Walter Scott - 1846 - 710 Seiten
...Scotland. I pledge myself to no particular line of subjects ; but, on the contrary, say with Burns, Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. I have only to add, by way of postscript to these preliminary chapters, that I had recourse to Moliere's... | |
| Walter Scott - 1846 - 620 Seiten
...Scotland. I pledge myself to no particular line of subjects ; but, on the contrary, say with Burns, Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. I have only to add, by way of postscript to these preliminary chapters, that I have had recourse to... | |
| Charles Lanman - 1842 - 272 Seiten
...with his blessing ! MUSINGS. " But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine j Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon." Burns. How impressive is the eloquence of silence ! Sweet indeed is the voice of woman, — the fireside... | |
| Charles Lanman - 1843 - 270 Seiten
...nations of the earth. God be with thee, and crown thee with his blessing ! MUSINGS. ' But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a saflg, Perhaps turn out a sermon." Burns. How impressive is the eloquence of silence ! Sweet indeed... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 Seiten
...sent you, Though it should serve naeb other end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. Ye '11 try the world soon, my lad, And, Andrew dear, believe me, Ye '11 find mankind an unco squad,"... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 Seiten
...have sent you, Tho" it should serve nae other end Than just a kind memento. But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. Ye '11 try the world soon, my lad, And, Andrew dear, believe me, t Mr. AA Alliin, now of Liverpool,... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1841 - 254 Seiten
...repeating what Robert Burns has said in the beginning of a poetic epistle written to a friend : — " Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon ;" — or rather expressing the fear, that what I shall be able to say to you on the present occasion,... | |
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