I'll wage thee! Who shall say that Fortune grieves him While the star of hope she leaves him? Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me, Dark despair around benights me. I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy; Naething could resist my Nancy; But to see her was to... The Scottish Songs - Page 13edited by - 1829 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sue Chestnutwood Perkins - American fiction - 1868 - 370 pages
...struck her fancy therein. They were Burns's poems. It were easy to guess which one she was conning. . " Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly." Alas ! " we" that one little word filled her eyes. She struck it out of the poem, and after a little... | |
| Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 pages
...leaves him: Me, nae chearful twinkle lights me; Dark despair around benights me. — I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy: But...Love but her, and love for ever. — Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly ! Never met — or never parted, We had ne'er been... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...physical morality. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) English philosopher See Haldane on ANXIETY Heartbreak Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved...never parted — We had ne'er been broken-hearted. Robert Bums (1759-1796) Scottish poet When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...TrGrPo Ae Fond Kiss 10 Ae fond kiss, and then we sever! Ae fareweel, alas, for ever! (1. 1—2) 1 1 (1. 1 1—12) 12 Had we never lov'd sae kindly. Had we never lov'd sae blindly. Never met — or never... | |
| Morris Raphael Cohen, Morris R. Cohen, Ernest Nagel - Philosophy - 1993 - 306 pages
...drawing the consequences of propositions asserting what might have been but did not in fact happen. "Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved...or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted!" It is a great error to suppose, as many have unthinkingly done, that in the reasoning we call scientific... | |
| Jane Peart - Fiction - 2009 - 214 pages
...a small book of Robert Burns's poetry—the one Owen had marked for her, indicating his favorites: Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met—never parted We'd had n'er been broken-hearted. As the ferry pulled out of the harbor, Cara wondered,... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Dlf I; Leturx-* inoverbon HYCIÏNE. HEARTBREAK 1 Had we never lov'd sae kindly. Had we never lov'd st, an historian. Novelists in Interview (cd. by John Haftenden. 1985). 2 It alw ROBERT BURNS ( 1 759-96). Scottish pod. Ae Fond Kits. 2 It isn't enough for your heart to break because... | |
| Donald A. Low - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 474 pages
...manner. The following exquisitely affecting stanza contains the essence of a thousand love tales : Had we never loved sae kindly Had we never loved sae...or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted. There are one or two political songs, which for any wit or humour they contain, might have been very... | |
| Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...Tappertit, in Barnaby Rudge, ch. 22(1841). Heartbreak 1 Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted — We had ne'er been brokenhearted. ROBERT BURNS, (1759-1796) Scottish poet. "Ae Fond Kiss, and Then We Sever," st. 4, Johnson's Musical... | |
| Emerson R. Marks - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 428 pages
...of intensity. Not so Arnold, who admired the "immortal" lines of Robert Burns's "Farewell to Nancy," Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved...or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted — only to complain of the author's inability to hold to their level everywhere in his poem. "The... | |
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