 | Peter Freeland Aiken, Robert Burns - 1876 - 422 trang
...by your leave, my learned foes, 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 namely in attire, May touch the heart. Whoever has watched a stream, as poet, sketcher... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1876
...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 FERGUSON'S, the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880
...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, though hamely in attire, May touch the heart. O for a spunk7 o' Allan's glee, Or Fergusson's,... | |
 | James Gibson - 1881 - 338 trang
...Sketch of the Author. [Octavo.] " 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. London: JONES & COMPANY. 1824. Portrait engraved... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881
...climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek l 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. O for a spunk 7 o' Allan's glee, Or Fergusson's,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885
...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. 0 for a spunk o' Allan's f glee, Or Fergusson's,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1887 - 362 trang
...climb Parnassus THE POEMS OF BURNS. 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. 0 for a spunk o' Allan's glee, Or Ferguson's, the... | |
 | J. B. Reid - 1889 - 568 trang
...the pleugh, . . . . ' Ib. 24. Tho' I should pawn my pleugh an' graith, Ep. toj. L—k, Ap. ist, 7. Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, .... Ib. 13. I had sax owsen in a pleugh, . S. О glide ale comes t Or baud a yokin at the pleugh,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1884 - 636 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, though namely in attire, May touch the heart. 0 for a spunk o' Allan's glee, Or Ferguson's, the... | |
 | Wallace Bruce - 1893 - 266 trang
...fields of Ayrshire, exclaims — " 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. " It is said in mythology that Antaeus, son of Poseidon... | |
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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. 
