 An honest man's the 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, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind! Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness...  Poems: Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Seite 136von Robert Burns - 1786 - 240 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | British anthology - 1825
...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...: What is a lordling's pomp ? — a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 212 Seiten
...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...behind; What is a lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia!... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826
...An honest man's the noblest work of God :' And certcs, in fair virtue's heav'nly road, The collage 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826
...breath of kings, "An honest man's the 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 ta cumbrous load, Disguising of the wretch of human-kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd!... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827
...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...behind ; What is a lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1827
...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 palace far behind. BUKXS. THE period at which Sidney Romelee was, for the first time in his life, to commence business... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington)
...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 palace far behind. Burnt. In such a palace Aristeus found Cyrene when he bore the plaintive tale Of his lost bees to her... | |
 | 1831
...home, rever'd abroad ! Prince» and lords are but the breath of kings, " An honest man's the noblest work of God ^ And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly...leaves the palace far behind ; What is a lordling's jromp ! a cumbrous load. • Pope's Windsor Forest. С -¿ Disguising oft the wretch of human kind,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 438 Seiten
...An honest man's the noblest work of God :" And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The collage leaves the palace far behind ; What is a lordling's pomp ! a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied rn arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd ! XX. * O Scotia... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 324 Seiten
...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...behind. What is a lordling's pomp ? A cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind! Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia,... | |
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