| 1910 - 506 pagine
...that we have Burns, convivial, genuine, delightful, here — ' Leeze me on drink ! it gies us niair Than either school or 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... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1913 - 376 pagine
...it. Many of his admirers will tell us that we have Burns, convivial, genuine, delightful, here — " Leeze me on drink ! it gies us mair Than either school...college ; It kindles wit, it waukens lair, It pangs us foil o' knowledge. Be 't whisky gill or penny wheep Or ouy stronger potion, It never fails, on drinking... | |
| Robert Burns - 1914 - 724 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 gi'es us mair Than either School or College : It kindles vVit, it waukens Lair, It pangs us fou o' Knowledge. Be't whisky gill, or penny wheep, Or ony stronger... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 pagine
...wi' Scripture, They raise a din, that in the end 160 Is like to breed a rupture O' wrath that day. Leeze me" on drink ! it gies us mair Than either school or college: It kindles wit, it waukens lear,12 165 It pangs13 us fou o' knowledge. Be't whisky-gill or penny-wheep,14 Or onie stronger potion,... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 pagine
...Scripture, They raise a din, that in the end 160 Is like to breed a rupture O' wrath that day. Leeze me11 d. The Almighty, nodding, gave consent ; And peals of thunder shook the firmament. H leat,12 165 It pangs13 us fou o' knowledge. Be't whisky-gill or penny-wheep,14 Or onie stronger potion,... | |
| William Allan Neilson - 1917 - 364 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 gi'es us mair Than either school...college: It kindles wit, it waukens lair, It pangs us fou «>' knowledge. Be't whisky gill, or penny wheep, Or ony stronger potion, It never fails, on drinkin'... | |
| Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 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; It kindles wit, it waukens lear, It pangs us fou o' knowledge. Be 't whisky-gill or penny-wheep, Or onie stronger potion, It never... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1918 - 624 pagine
...tell us that we have Burns, convivial, genuine, delightful, here ;— 'Leeze me on drink! it gies ns mair Than either school or 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... | |
| Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 pagine
...inspiration was rather to be found in f'ae spark o' Nature's fire," — or at the nearest tavern: Leese me on drink! it gies us mair Than either school or college. Like Sterne, who boasted that his pen governed him, Burns praised and affected the impromptu: But how... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1920 - 626 pagine
...tends to mislead; let us look at him closely, he can bear it. ' Lceze me on drink 1 it gies us mail Than either school or 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... | |
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