 | 1823 - 816 pagina’s
...gear." Honest Tibby, with quaking heart and nimble hand, cuts the /,-itnt. but, as Barns observes, Pleasures are like poppies spread — You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed : first one covering is taken off, and then another, (for they are as numerous as the grave-digger's... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pagina’s
...Tam didna mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The...But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for... | |
 | 1829 - 660 pagina’s
...mind the storm a whistle. - Care, mad to see a man sac happy, - - - E'en drown'd himself amang the nappy - - - As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure,...glorious, -- O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.” 4 - We beg our readers will pay particular attention t¿ this passage, fot' it is that from which the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pagina’s
...Tam didua mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The...Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the hills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pagina’s
...Tain did na mind the storm a whistleCare, mad to see a man sae happy, Kv'n drown'd himself amang the nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The...But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower — its bloom is shed ! Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 pagina’s
...whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, K'en drown 'd himsel amang the nappy ; As bees flee líame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a" the ills o' life victorious. But-pleasures are like poppies spread, You... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pagina’s
...Tam didna mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy. As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The...But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever;... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 pagina’s
...perceive that, in all this, though there was no moral purpose, there is a moral effect. * .I •* " Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills of life victorious." " What a lesson do these words convey of charitable indulgence for the vicious... | |
 | 1829 - 832 pagina’s
...Tarn did na mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himself amang the nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The...wing'd their way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.". We beg our readers will pay particular attention... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1830 - 50 pagina’s
...Tarn didna mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The...their way wi• pleasure : Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You... | |
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O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the... 
