 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pages
...quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing ; But oh ! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling ! To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her ; And gather gear by every wile That 's justified by honour ; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Not for a train attendant ; But for the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 248 pages
...profuseness, habitual only with the selfish, and irreconcileable with any steadfast domestic virtue. " To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait...justified by honor ; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant; BUT FOR THE GLORIOUS PRIVILEGE OF BEING INDEPENDENT." Such was the advice... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1846 - 392 pages
...good, as well as to g<i good. William Hutton realized the idea c Scotland's noble peasant bard:— " To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait...And gather gear by every wile, That's justified by honour. Not for to hide it in a hedge— Not for a train attendant, MORAL HEROISM, 361 But for the... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pages
...brings, but chiefly that he might be free from the world. He recorded the creed of the trne man ; — To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather gear by ev'ry wile That' s justified by honour ; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Not for a train-attendant ;... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 pages
...o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och ! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling ! " To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait...And gather gear by every wile That's justified by honour : Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant ; But for the glorious privilege... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 pages
...o' the sin, The hazard of concealing ; But, oeh ! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling ! To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her ; And gather gear by ev'ry wile That 's justified by honour : Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train-attendant ;... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 932 pages
...Friend." "To catch Dame Fortune'" golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her. Ami gather gear by every wilo That's justified by Honor. Not for to hide it In a hedge. Not for a train attendant. But for that glorious privilege Of being independent." Worldly-wise maxims these of the high-minded warm-hearted... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 792 pages
...the sin, The hazard of concealing j But och ! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling ! VII. l," the wanderer thus With a complacent animation...in your judgment, sir ! the mind's repose On evide honour ; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Not for a train-attendant ; But for the glorious privilege... | |
 | M.B. Bateham and S.D. Harris - 1852 - 396 pages
...sought for its own sake alone, narrows the mind and depraves the heart. But when pursued, as Burns says, Not for to hide it in a hedge, Not for a train attendant. But for the glorious privilege and not for that selfish motive only, but also to diffuse happiness around us, extend comfort and relief... | |
 | 1852 - 394 pages
...estimate of wealth on just grounds, but on the principle of the great and wise poet of Scotland — " To catch Dame Fortune's golden smile — Assiduous wait upon her; And gather gear by every wile Thiit's justified by honor — Not for to hide it in a hedge, Not for a train attendant, But for the... | |
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Och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather gear by ev'ry wile That's justified by honour; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant; But for the glorious... 
