 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 shools, Or knappin'-hammers. A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in...  Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Pagina 87door Robert Burns - 1800Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Robert Burns - 1786 - 294 pagina’s
...can you e'er propofe, * You wha ken hardly verfe frae profe, * To mak a fang /" But by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're maybe wrang. What's a' your...fools, What fairs your Grammars ? Ye'd better taen u^fpades andjhools, Or knappin-hammers. A fet o' dull, conceited Hafhes, Confufe their brains in Colledge-claJJes... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1797 - 304 pagina’s
...can you e'er propofe, • You wha ken hardly verfe frae profe, * To mak a fang?' But, by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're maybe wrang. What's a' your...knappin-hammers. • A fet o' dull, conceited Hafhes, Confufe their brains in College clafles ! They gang in Stirks, and come out Afles, Plain truth to fpeak... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1798 - 308 pagina’s
...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 wrang. What's a' your...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 - 308 pagina’s
...can you e'er propofe, ' You wha ken hardly verfe frae profe, ' To mak 'a. fang?* But, by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're maybe wrang. • What's a'...honeft nature made you fools, What fairs your Grammars ? Ye'4 better taen up fpades and fhools, Or knappin-hammers. A fet o' dull, conceited Hafhes, Confufe... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 270 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pagina’s
...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 wrang. What's a' your...jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns an' stools ; If honest nature made you/oo&, What sairs your grammars ? Ye'd better taen up spades and shools,... | |
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