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
| Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 Seiten
...it should serve nae other end no Than just a kind memento ; But how the subjeet-theme may gang, go Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, song Perhaps turn out a sermon. Ye'll try the world fu' soon, my lad, foD And, Andrew dear, believe... | |
| Margaret Cockburn Conkling, Henry Lunettes - 1860 - 496 Seiten
...have sent yon, Tho' it may serve no 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," TABLE OF CONTENTS LETTER I. DRESS. PitOPRiRTT of conforming to Fashion, with a due Regard for individual... | |
| Walter Scott - 1860 - 476 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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 Seiten
...sent you, Though it should serve nae2 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,*... | |
| Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 518 Seiten
...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 sermon. Ye 'l1 try the world soon, my lad; And, Andrew dear, believe me, Ye 'll find mankind an unco 1 squad,... | |
| 1903 - 1186 Seiten
...life ! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches Snch as I ! i Deipondency. Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a Sermon. Epistle to a Young Friend. 1 waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing ; But, och ! it... | |
| Ellen Burns Sherman - 1903 - 264 Seiten
...attach to himself he gratefully and ingenuously makes over to the gods. SEVERAL WORDS TO THE WISE. " Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon." THE Gradgrinds are a long-lived race, and, while their breath is in them, in vain may authors who pass... | |
| Thomas O'Conor Sloane - 1906 - 226 Seiten
...alike is a dreary failure, whether he reaches his goal or not. The book is left now to the reader. " Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon." In either case, it will not be a very long one. PREFACE TO THE FIFTEENTH EDITION. A number of years... | |
| Ellen Burns Sherman - 1903 - 266 Seiten
...attach to himself he gratefully and ingenuously makes over to the gods. SEVERAL WORDS TO THE WISE. " Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon." THE Gradgrinds are a long-lived race, and, while their breath is in them, in vain may authors who pass... | |
| D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 360 Seiten
...determine; Perhaps it rrtey turn out a sang, 5 Perhaps turn out a sermon. Ye'll try the warld fu' soon, my lad, And, Andrew dear, believe me, Ye'll find mankind an unco 6 squad, And muckle 7 they may grieve ye: For care and trouble set your thought, Ev'n when your end's... | |
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