| George Gleig - 1812 - 142 pagine
...wi' scripture, They raise a din, that, in the end, Is like to breed a rupture O' wrath that day. " Leeze me on drink ! it gi'es us mair Than either school...college ; It kindles wit, it waukens lair, It pangs us fou o' knowledge. Be't whisky gill, or penny wheep, Or ony stronger potion, It never fails, on drinking... | |
| Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pagine
...an" wi' scripture, They raise a din, that, in the end, Is like to breed a rupture O' wrath that day. Leeze me on drink ! it gies us mair Than either school or college : * A street IB called which faces the ttot in1 1 kindles wit, it waukens lair, It pangs us fou o'... | |
| 1819 - 304 pagine
...however I believe for sake of argument than from conviction of the truth of his quotation,) " .Loese me on drink ! it gies us mai'r " Than either school or college, " It. kindles wit, it waukens lair, " And pangs us fu' o' knowledge." So that you see, Messrs Editors, however plausible any series of... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 pagine
...ivi' Scripture, They raise a din, that in the end, Is like to breed a rupture O' wrath that day. XIX. Leeze me on Drink ! it gies us mair ('' Than either...College, : It kindles wit, it waukens lair, It pangs us fou o' knowledge. Be't whisky gill, or penny wheep, Or ony stronger potion, It never fails, on drinking... | |
| 1822 - 874 pagine
...complain of phy- London, 1?32. Literary Lrgacy. — No. /T. THE BRIDI OP BALACHAV. (Conttnued.) " Lecze me on drink, it gies us mair Than either school or...college, It kindles wit, it waukens lair It pangs us fti* o' knowledge." IT is really amusing to watcli the play-green of life, and observe the children... | |
| 1822 - 880 pagine
...J>hy- London, 1822. THE I'.lilDK OF ¡lAL.U'HA.V. (Continued.} " Lceze me on drink, it gies us raair Than either school or college, It kindles wit, it waukens lair It pangs us fu' o' knowledge." IT is really amusing to watch the play-green of life, and observe the children of men enjoying their... | |
| Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 pagine
...end, Is like to breed a rapture O' wrath that day. • A street 10 called, which faces the tat In XIX. Leeze me on Drink ! it gies us mair Than either School...College : It kindles wit, it waukens lair, It pangs us fou o' knowledge. Be't whisky gill, or penny wheep, Or ony stronger potion, It never fails on drinking... | |
| Robert Burns - 1834 - 236 pagine
...Scripture, They raise a din, that in the end, IK like to breed a rupture O1 wrath that day. XIX. i Leeze me on drink ! it gies us mair Than either school...college : It kindles wit, it waukens lair, It pangs us fou o' knowledge. Be't whiskey gill, or penny wtieep, Or onie stronger potion, It never fails, on drinking... | |
| Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 370 pagine
...an' wi' scripture, They raise a din, that, in the end, Is like to breed a rupture O' wrath that day. Leeze me on drink ! it gies us mair Than either school...college : It kindles wit, it waukens lair, It pangs us fou o' knowledge. Be't whisky gill, or penny wheep, Or ony stronger potion, It never fails, on drinking... | |
| 1859 - 980 pagine
...all classes when the favourite and most winning poet of his time has verses like these : " Lese mo on drink it gies us mair Than either school or college: It kindles wit, it wakens lenr, It pangs us fu' o' knowledge." Debaucheries of this kind had become so abhorrent, that... | |
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