 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1859 - 284 pages
...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...pomp ? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human-kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia I my dear, my native soil ! For... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...For them and I But, chiefly, in their From scenes like That makes h< Princes and lord: And certes,1 in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves...pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human-kind, Studied in aits of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For... | |
 | James White - 1859 - 108 pages
...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...cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of Hell, in wickedness refin'd ! O Scotia ; my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest... | |
 | Edward Bannerman Ramsay - Fiction - 1860 - 328 pages
...wish for a virtuous populace which was once poured forth in the prayer of a " patriot bard :" — " O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest...blest with health, and peace, and sweet content." In such wishes let all unite in heart and tongue. In such feelings let our religious and political... | |
 | 1901 - 498 pages
...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...cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined! LITTLE BOY BLUE. BY EUGENE FIELD. [For a sketch of... | |
 | John Thomas Scopes - Law - 1997 - 356 pages
...Scotland's immortal bard, which, when changed but slightly, describe your country's confidence in you: "O Scotia, my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest...Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! "And, oh, may Heav'n their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile! Then, howe'er... | |
 | Automobile Association (Great Britain) - Social Science - 1996 - 268 pages
...100 200 Irelower House Hoel Cerrig Court Llandegeman CRICKHOWELL SCOTLAND CULROSS, SCOTLAND oi fh, Scotia! My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest...Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! ROBERT BURNS SCOTLAND ABERFOYLE 239,240 BLAIR ATHOLL 241,242 BRAEMAR 243 COLDSTREAM 244 CULROSS 245,... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noble work of God:' And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The Cottage...cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of Hell, in wickedness refin'd! Tam O'Shanter (1791) was a racing tale of a drunk man... | |
 | Leith Davis - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 240 pages
...will help to imagine the Scottish nation. At the end of the poem, Burns addresses the nation itself: o SCOTIA! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest...Be blest with health and peace and sweet content! (II 172-75) Although he employs the "sons of rustic toil" as the objects of his national discourse,... | |
 | Robert Crawford - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 268 pages
...Fergusson, Burns sees in the very spareness of his cotters' diet a symbol of Scottish self-reliance: O SCOTIA! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest...Be blest with health and peace and sweet content! And O may Heaven their simple lives prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and vile! Then howe'er crowns... | |
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil, Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! 
