 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 282 pages
...breath of kings, ' An honest man 's the noblest work of God ; ' And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind ; What is a lordling's pomp ? — a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1869 - 624 pages
...breath of kings, », "An honest man 's the noblest work of God:"* And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind : What is a lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human-kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia... | |
 | WILLARD C. GORE - 1915 - 390 pages
...breath of kings, J " An honest man's the noblest work of God : " And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind ; What is a lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd I O Scotia... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...breath of kings, " An honest man 's the noblest work of God;" And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly n, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last; And yet so nursed and bigoted 169 Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of Hell, in wickedness refiu'dl XX O Scotia!... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...breath of kings, 165 "An honest man's the noblest work of God": And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind: What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, 170 Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined! O Scotia!... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...breath of kings, 165 "An honest man's the noblest work of God": 1 And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly high rocks throw mildly 130 On the blanch'd sands a gloom: Up the still, glistening beaches, 169 Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd ! O Scotia!... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...breath of kings, 165 "An honest man's the noblest work of God":1 And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly nde. 31. "If thou had ought eny ill will," he saith, " Thou shoulde have taken my lyffe, And 169 Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd ! O Scotia... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...breath of kings, "An honest man's the noblest work of God."1 And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly , 50 ff. (p. 687). 'defiled (See Ifacteth, III, 1, 64.) Albeit my brow thou never shouldst b 170 Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of Hell, in wickedness refin'dl 0 Scotia... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1917 - 364 pages
...breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noblest work of God ;' And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind ; What is a lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd ! O Scotia... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw - Patriotic literature, American - 1918 - 346 pages
...the breath of kings, "An honest man's the noblest work of God"; And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind ; What is a lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd ! 0 Scotia... | |
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An honest man's the noblest work of God;' And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness... 
