 | 1797 - 980 pagine
...His ribh.-.nd, fUr, and a' that; A man of independent mind Can look and laugh at a' that I The Kisg can make a belted Knight, A Marquis, Duke, and a' that; But an honcft man's aboon his might, Guid faith he manna fa' that, 4 H * F« 6X2 POETRY. For a' that, and... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 460 pagine
...ribband, star, and a' that, The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Gude faith he mauna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 644 pagine
...six months, but the creating peers and dubbing knights ? ' The king,' as Burns says, — ' The king can make a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that, — ' but it would be equally unconstitutional, insulting, and false, to consider his Majesty as having had the... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 378 pagine
...riband, star, and a' that; The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and... | |
 | 1820 - 774 pagine
...the earth. I mean King Lewis the XIV. of haughty and magnificent memory. Burns says, " A king may mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might, Gude faith he maunna fa' that." Freron tells us, that Lewis, walking one day... | |
 | Henry Hunt - 1820 - 632 pagine
...manhood. Burns did well describe the impotence of earthly title-makers, when he said, The King may mak a belted knight, A Marquis, Duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's abune his might, Gude faith he canna fa' that. And a Henry Hunt would succeed no better in the... | |
 | 1822 - 614 pagine
...with a receipt for making a True Protestant. ' . I am, your obedient servant, A UNITARIAN. The king can make a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might, Gude faith he canna fa' that. — BCRNS. R*CEIPT FOR MAKING A TRUE METHODIST.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 pagine
...riband, star, and a' that, The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pagine
...riband, star, and a' that, The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might : Guid faith, he mauna fa' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pagine
...a' that, and a' that, His riband, star, and a' that, The man of independent mind, A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he manna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and... | |
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He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might — Guid faith, he mauna fa' that ! For a 
