 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 636 trang
...climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek! Gie me ac spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire ; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, though hamely in attire, May touch the heart. 0 for a spunk o' Allan's glee, Or Ferguson's, the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1898 - 331 trang
...climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek ! Gie me ae spark o' nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire ; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My muse, tho' hamely in attire, May touch the heart. O for a spunk o' Allan's glee, Or Fergusson's, the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1898 - 134 trang
...learned foes, Ye're maybe wrang. 30 Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, though hamely in attire, 35 May touch the heart. Thro' Scotland wide; 40 Wi ' cits nor lairds... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - 1899 - 295 trang
...not abundantly answered : — " Gie me ae spark of Nature's fire. That 's a' the learning I desire ; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub ' an' mire At pleugh or cart, My muse, tho' namely in attire, May touch the heart." There is the secret of his power. His muse does... | |
 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1900 - 442 trang
...they think to climb Parnassus Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That 's a' the learning I desire ; Then, tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, tho' hamely in attire, May touch the heart. XIV. 0 for a spunk o' Allan's glee, Or Fergusson's,... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1900 - 499 trang
...plowman's poetic creed : — " Give me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning 1 desire ; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, though hamely in attire, May touch the heart." - , • Burns's heart had been touched with the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1901
...Parnassus THE POEMS OF BURNS. Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; 1'lien tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, though namely in attire, May touch the heart. 0 for a spunk o' Allan's glee, Or Ferguson's, the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1903 - 160 trang
...Jokn Lapraik, Burns says : — " Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then, tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, though namely in attire, May touch the heart." 74 : 18. " The elder dramatists." Charles Lamb... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1907 - 162 trang
...Nature's own making: Cf. Burns's " Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, though hamely in attire, May touch the heart." — Epistle to John Lapraik. the elder dramatists:... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908
...speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek! Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, 25 Then, tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, though hamely in attire, May touch the heart. 30 ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH Edina, Scotia's darling... | |
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Gie me ae spark o' nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My muse, tho' hamely in attire, May touch the heart. 
