| Sir Philip Sidney - Maxims - 1807 - 248 pages
...other to lead honest and useful lives, and to worship God in sanctity and, truth, he declares that "From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad !'• And how nobly does he proceed ! It is the spirit of Tyrtseus, animating to courage... | |
| Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...For them and for their little ones provide; But, chiefly , in their hearts with grace divine preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad : Princes and lords arc but the breath of kings, ' An honest man's the noblest work... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside. XIX. * From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of .kings, ' An honest man 's the noblest work... | |
| George Gleig - 1812 - 142 pages
...too much praise cannot be bestowed ; and every reader of piety and virtue will agree with him, that " From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad." IT has been already observed*, that the range of an illiterate poet's thoughts cannot... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, ' An honest man's the noblest work... | |
| Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. XIX. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, ' An honest man's the noblest work... | |
| Industrial arts - 1825 - 490 pages
...I'KIM J i.. MECHANICS' MAGAZINE, CONDUCTED BY A Committee of Civil Engineers and Practical Mechanic*. 1 From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of klngi, * An honest man '• the noblest work... | |
| Robert Burns - Scotland - 1826 - 272 pages
...them and for their little ones provide, But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside. XIX. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad ; Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man's the noblest work of... | |
| Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...pleased, the language of the soul; And in his book of life the inmates poor enroll. 7. From scene's like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad ; Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, The cottage leaves the palace far behind;... | |
| James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 632 pages
...method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart. " From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, — 'An honest man's the noble work... | |
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