 | William Landels - 1861 - 280 pàgines
...these things can add sught to a true man's worth. Eight truly and nobly does the poet sing — * la there for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that? The coward slave, we pass him by; We dare be poor for a' that. For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure,... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 pàgines
...in the heartless round of fashionable folly and frivolity, still recognize and feel and own a man. " Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that 1 The coward slave, we pass him by ; We dare be poor, for a' that." " The rank is but the guinea-stamp... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pàgines
...his wife, " Well, my love, I thought we should kill him at last." Miss BREWSTER. "A MAN'S A MAN FOE A' THAT.' Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that ! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure,... | |
 | George Harley Kirk - 1863 - 240 pàgines
...the rest is leather or prunello", than that striking song which opens with the immortal stanza : " Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that, The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 360 pàgines
...or three pretty good prose thoughts inverted into rhyme." — Burns to Mr. Thomson, January, 1795. Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure,... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pàgines
...'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven, Than when I was a boy. HONEST POVERTY.— Burns. Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that ; The coward-slave we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that. For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 356 pàgines
...or three pretty good prose thoughts inverted into rhyme." — Burns to Mr. Thomson, January, 1795. Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 340 pàgines
...forgiven ; For sure, 'twere impious to despair So much in sight of heaven. FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT. S there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1865 - 466 pàgines
...lovely fair, To hope may be forgiven ; For sure, 'twere impious to despair So much in sight in heaven. FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT. Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1865 - 364 pàgines
...or three pretty good prose thoughts inverted into rhyme." — Burns to Mr. Thomson, January, 1795. Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure,... | |
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