 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...  Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Page 16by Robert Burns - 1798Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1859 - 284 pages
...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 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 refined ! O Scotia... | |
 | Robert Burns - English letters - 1859 - 736 pages
...breath of kings, " 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 refined ! Oh Scotia... | |
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 pages
...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 heav'nly...behind: What is a lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd 1 0 Scotia... | |
 | John Wilson - 1861 - 236 pages
...illustrated the truth in a milder manner than " What is a lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined." Our moral nature revolts with a sense of injustice from the comparison of the... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...breath of kings ; " 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 refined ! O Scotia... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...breath of kings, — "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 wicksdness refined ! O Scotia... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 440 pages
...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 heav'nly...behind ; What is a lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kiud, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! 0 Scotia... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 368 pages
...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 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 refined ! Oh Scotia... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...John is supposed to have written the book of < mesUy vertmcnu And certes, 1 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 refined! 0 Scotia!... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 392 pages
...breath of kings, " 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 refined ! O Scotia!... | |
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