 | Margaret T. Downing - English poetry - 1867 - 394 pages
...from a poem, the title of which is inadmissable to ears polite, is often quoted: O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. What airs in dress and gait wad lea'o us, And e'en... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - Latin poetry - 1867 - 312 pages
...'tis we cannot see our own, • Our neighbours' in a trice are shown. Cf. also Bums — O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. POEM XXIII. IF this Furius is the person mentioned in poems xi. and xvi. he must have been in extreme... | |
 | Alexander Hislop - Proverbs, Scottish - 1868 - 378 pages
...advice are generally slow in giving assistance. " Crookit carlin," quo' the cripple to his wife. " Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion. " — Burns. Cry a' at ance, that's the way to be... | |
 | Eschatology - 1868 - 208 pages
...join in the prayer (the spelling of which does not seem to be very familiar to him): — " 0 wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion ; What airs in dress an' gait would lea'e ua, And ev'n... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 pages
...speed The blastie's makin ! Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin! O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : 75 ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH. EnINA ! Scotia's darling... | |
 | Connecticut. Board of Education - 1869 - 284 pages
...And no words of Burns have met a more general response from the world than the familiar couplet: " Oh, wad some Power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us." To attain this knowledge of ourselves, the importance of which has been thus universally conceded in... | |
 | 1869 - 290 pages
...And no words of Burns have met a more general response from the world than the familiar couplet: " Oh, wad some Power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us." To attain this knowledge of ourselves, the importance of which has been thus universally conceded in... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1869 - 624 pages
...cursed speed The blastie 's makin' ! Thae" winks and finger-ends I dread, Are notice takin' ! O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And e'en... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...taking notes, And, faith, he 1l prent it. On Captain Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland. O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. To a Louse. The best laid schemes o' mice and men... | |
 | Alexander Hislop (publisher) - 1870 - 378 pages
...advice are generally slow in giving assistance. " Crookit carlin," quo' the cripple to his wife. " Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion. " — Burns. Cry a' at ance, that's the way to be... | |
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as others see us! 
