| Robert Burns - 1798 - 308 pages
...nofe, And fay, ' How can you e'er propofe, ' You wha ken hardly verfe frae pro/e, ' To mak ^fang?"1 But, by your leaves, my learned foes, . Ye're maybe...jargon o' your Schools, Your Latin names for horns an' {tools ; If honeft nature made you fools, What fairs your Grammars ? Ye'd better taen up fpades and... | |
| Robert Burns - 1800 - 300 pages
...can you e'er propofe, ' You wha ken hardly verfe frae proff, f To mak a fang ?' But, by your leayes, my learned foes, Ye're maybe wrang. What's a' your...fools, What fairs your Grammars ? Ye'd better taen up fpades and fhools, Or knappin-hammers. A fet o' dull, conceited Hafhes, Gonfufe their brains in... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...ken hardly verse firae prose, ' To mak a sang ?' But, by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're may be wrang. What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns an' stools ; If honest nature made you fools, What sairs your grammars ? Ye'd better taen up spades and... | |
| Robert Burns - 1815 - 364 pages
...nose, And say, " How ean you e'er propose, You wha ken hardly verse frae prose, To make a sang .?" But, by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're maybe wrang. What's a' your jargon o' your sehools, Your Latin names for horits an' stools ; If honest nature made you/oo/s, What sairs your grammars... | |
| Innes Hoole - 1821 - 688 pages
...VII. Learning in the hand of some is a sceptre; in that of others^ a fool's bauble. FULLER'S Proverbs. What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns an' stools, If honest nature made you fools, What say your grammars i Ye*d better ta'en up spades and shools,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 274 pages
...their nose, And say, ' How can you e'er propose, You wha ken hardly verse frae prose, To mak a sang?' But, by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're maybe...jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns an' stools ; If honest nature made you fools, What sairs your grammars? Ye'd better taen up spades and... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 pages
...ken hardly verse frae prose, • To mak a sang ~ But, by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're may be wrang. What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns an' stools ; If honest nature made you fools, What sairs your grammars .Ye'd better taen up spades and... | |
| Philomathic institution - 1825 - 504 pages
...drink the draught of (.inspiration at the fountain head ! For the present he said, with Burns — " What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns an' stools; If honest nature made you fools, What sairs your grammars? Ye'd better ta'en up spades and... | |
| 1825 - 486 pages
...to drink the draught of inspiration at the fountain head! For the present he said, with Burns — *' What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns an' stools; . If honest nature made you fools, What sairs your grammars? Ye'd better ta'en up spades and... | |
| Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 pages
...nose, Vnd say, u How can you e'er propose, f ou wha ken hardly verse frae prost, ^ To mak a sang ? Jut, by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're maybe wrang. What's a' your jargon o' your schools, rour Latin names for horns an' stools ; f honest nature made you fools, r Whatsairsyourgraminars: e'd... | |
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