 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 460 pagini
...THAT AND A' THAT. Is there, for honest poverty That hangs his head, and a' that; The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a'...Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What thoagh on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey,... | |
 | James A. Maitland - 1816 - 330 pagini
........ 287 THE WATCHMAN. CHAPTER I. THE WATCHMAN'S FAMILY. "Is there, for honest poverty, That bangs his head, and a* that ? The coward slave ! we pass...Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the goud for a' that.'' — BURNS. THE faint glimmer of the cold grey dawn... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 378 pagini
...poverty, The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! R3 That hangs his head, and a' that; For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey,... | |
 | 1844 - 826 pagini
...dignity of the human soul, because he has never forgotten that amidst all the distinctions of time, " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." Because he has regarded himself as the high-priest of Nature, and the world which we inhabit... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pagini
...the truth that filled the mind of Robert Burns, when he wrote : " Is there for honest poverty Wha' hangs his head, and a' that? The coward slave we pass...Our toils obscure and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, — The man 's the gowd for a' that." The mechanic has just as good a chance to shine... | |
 | 1884 - 398 pagini
...at heart. To separate the word into its two parts, they were gentle men. As Robert Burns says — " For a' that and a' that, Our toils obscure and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." Let us add, however, that nothing makes a man a gentleman... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 388 pagini
...THAT AND A' THAT. Is there, for honest poverty That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For...Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden-gray,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pagini
...THAT AND A' THAT. Is there, for honest poverty That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For...Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp ; The man 's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on namely fare we dine, Wear hodden-grey,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pagini
...for honest poverty That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare he poor for a' that! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden-gray,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pagini
...refuse, I'll lay my dead To her twa een sae bonnie blue. Is there, for honest poverty The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a'...Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden-grey",... | |
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