 | Yankee humour - 1853 - 154 trang
...grow wiser, and become happier. So mote it be ! A GENEBAL DISCOUBSE. TEXT. — But how the subject theme may gang Let time and chance determine : Perhaps...it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. YE MEN OP GOTHAM ! What a pretty looking nest of varmints ye are, taken in a heap, altogether! You... | |
 | William Lovett - 1853 - 496 trang
...have sent yon, Tli»' it should serve nae ither end Then just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps,...may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon." BURNS. " Sow an act, and yon reap a habit ; sow a habit, and yon reap a character ; sow a character,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1853 - 578 trang
...Scotland. I pledge myself to DO particular line of subjects ; but, on the contrary, say with Burns, Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. I have only to add, by way of postscript to these preliminary chapters, that I have had recourse to... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 404 trang
...SCOTTISH LIFE; WITH POEMS. BY PASTOR. " In an hour of perplexity, Kobert Burns said— ' How the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps...it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. So it would seem with the worthy man that has given being and birth to the pretty volume before us,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 trang
...have sent you, Tho' it should serve no other end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. Ye'll try the world soon, my lad, And Andrew, dear, believe me, Ye'll find mankind an unco squad, And... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 trang
...sent you, Though it should ierve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps...it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon. Ye'll try the world soon, my lad, And, Andrew dear, believe me, Ye'll find mankind an unco squad, And... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 528 trang
...Scotland. I pledge myself to no particular line of subjects ; but, on the contrary, say with Burns. Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. have only to add, by way of postscript to these prelim nary chapters, that 1 have had recourse to Moliere's... | |
 | 1856 - 592 trang
...beyond your power to save me, and so with your leave Mr. Editor we will begin. "But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine, Perhaps...it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon." A gentleman, who has since afforded us much pleasure by his agreeable chronicle of a " Cruise through... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 trang
...sent you, Tho' it should serve no other end Than just a kind memento ; « But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps...may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. ii. Ye'U try the world soon, my lad, And Andrew, dear, believe me, Ye'll find mankind an unco squad, And... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 trang
...sent you. Though it should serve nae other end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. Ye '11 try the world fu' soon, my lad, And, Andrew dear, believe me, Ye '11 find mankind an unco squad,... | |
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LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a... 
