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" 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 God'; And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves... "
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland: Historical, Traditionary, and ... - Page 90
by John Mackay Wilson - 1857
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Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney;: With Remarks,

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...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: Collated with the Best Editions, Volumes 1-2

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...
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Poems, Volume 1

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...
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A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns

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...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

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...
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Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect

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...
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Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy, Volume 2

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...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: Including Several Pieces Not Inserted in ...

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...
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The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

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;...
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Three Years in North America, Volume 2

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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