 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pàgines
...Forest." 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 :" Aud certes,1 in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind : What... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1859 - 284 pàgines
...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 :"2 And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the... | |
 | James Peddie (of Edinburgh.) - 1860 - 200 pàgines
...like these anld Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad ; Princes ;ind lords are but the breath of kings—- An honest man's the noblest work of God." This, as well as Montgomery's description of home, would appear to hundreds of our children,... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 358 pàgines
...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,...noblest work of God;" And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, V*^ The cottage leaves the palace far behind : Disguising oft the wretch of human kind,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 368 pàgines
...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,...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pàgines
...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;" 1 DRvid. a Saint John. 3 An Inland In UK Archipelago, where John is supposed to have written... | |
 | 1853 - 396 pàgines
...so?nes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs ; These make her lo\ ed at home, revered abroad. i Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, An honest man's the noblest work of God.' The effect was overwhelming. We happened, in leaving the church, to pass near the orator, and... | |
 | 1863 - 392 pàgines
...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... | |
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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... 
