 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 pagine
...refuses t on the train-attended carriage, or on the jed of matrimony. The curtain drops as U shout, " K J(g re is nothing in the language which, for id character, approaches this singular tata." The Beggar's... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 368 pagine
...Here's our ragged brats and callets ! One and all cry out, Amen ! A tig for those by law protected I Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest.* * Regarding this highly dramatic and picturesque poem, nothing better can be said than what is given... | |
 | Sylvan (pseud.) - 1848 - 106 pagine
...Let them cant about decorum Who have characters to lose. And the drama abruptly concludes with the chorus — A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's...were erected, Churches built to please the priest. POOR MAILIE. Mossgiel also inspired those tender and universal love-breathing verses to Poor Mailie,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1849 - 906 pagine
...Here's to all the wandering train ! Here's our ragged brats and caüet» l One and all cry out, Amen ! A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious...were erected, Churches built to please the priest THE KIRK'S ALARM:* A SATIRE. ORTHODOX, orthodox, wha believe in John Knox, Let me sound on alarm to... | |
 | 1853 - 604 pagine
...imaginative exercise, which may be called the imagination of states of feeling. Here is an example :— " A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious...were erected ; Churches built to please the priest." Burns's Jolly Beggars. This stanza, it will be observed, and we have chosen it for the purpose, is,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 pagine
...Mortals, fill your Glasses. 'See ! the smoking bowl before us, Mark our jovial ragged ring ! Hound and round take up the chorus, And in raptures let...were erected, Churches built to please the priest. What is title ? what is treasure ? What is reputation's care ? If we lead a life of pleasure, 'Tis... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pagine
...Here's to all the wandering train ! Here's our ragged brats and callets ! One and all cry out — Amen ! A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious...were erected, Churches built to please the priest. XV. DEATH AND DR. HORNBOOK. A TRUE STORY. [John Wilson, raised to the unwelcome elevation of hero to... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 pagine
...imaginative exercise, which may be called the imagination of states of feeling. Here is an example : — " A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious...were erected ; Churches built to please the priest." BUKHS'S Jolly Beggars, This stanza, it will be observed — and we have chosen it on purpose — is,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pagine
...Mark our jovial, ragged ring ! Round and round take up the chonw, And in raptures let us sing. CHORU3. A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious...cowards were erected, Churches built to please the ptieA u. What is title? what is treasurer What is reputation's care? If we lead a life of pleasure,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pagine
...ragged brats and callets ! One and all cry out — Amen ! A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty 'sa glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest.1 The poem is understood to have been founded on the poet's observation of an actual scene which... | |
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CHORUS. A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest. 
