 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 440 pagina’s
...Or aiblins some bit duddie boy, On 's wyliecoat ; But Miss'a fine Lunardi ! fie, How daur ye do't ? O, Jenny, dinna toss your head, An' set your beauties...cursed speed The blastie's makin ! Thae winks and finger ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! 0 wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others... | |
 | 1863 - 382 pagina’s
...ridicule ancient Fatalism, we trust many of our own interests to no surer compass. " O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion." Luck, as a word and as a custom, is becoming more and more common in our midst,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 358 pagina’s
...undervest But Miss's fine Lunardi ! l fie ! How daur ye do't ? Oh, Jenny, dinna toss your head, And set your beauties a' abread ! Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie's makin' ! shrivelled dwarf Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin' ! Oh wad some power the giftie... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1864 - 380 pagina’s
...wyliecoat ; But Miss's fine Lunardi ! fie I How daur ye do 't ? Oh, Jenny, dinna toss your head, And set your beauties a' abread ! Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie 's makin' ! Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin' ! Oh wad some power the... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1865 - 470 pagina’s
...Or aiblins some bit duddie boy, On 's wyliecoat ; Rut Miss's fine Lunardi ! fie, How daur ye do't? O, Jenny, dinna toss your head, An' set your beauties...finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! O wad some some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us... | |
 | 1865 - 452 pagina’s
...impression created by his foolish proposition. We would then simply say to him — " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion." AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE BROTHER HENRY FOWLE, WRITTEN IN 1833. [Continued from... | |
 | John Heiton - 1865 - 242 pagina’s
...merry things endued with fastness and much inclined to gyration. CHAPTER IX. " Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae mony an error free us, And foolish notion ; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion."... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1866 - 356 pagina’s
...Or aiblins some bit duddie boy, On's wyliecoat ; But Miss's fine Lunardi ! fie, How daur ye do't ? Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie's makin...notice takin ! O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us jTo see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs... | |
 | 1866 - 294 pagina’s
...favour he wore, since it was fixed upon him rather as a mark of disgrace than of honour. MORAL. Oh, wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us! APPLICATION. Thales, one of the seven sages of ancient Greece, is reported to have said, " For a man... | |
 | Annie Thomas - 1866 - 308 pagina’s
...you out of your difficulty, I believe. Burns shall find words for me : " Oh ! would some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion : " we can't be too thankful to the poets, can we : now... | |
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O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion I ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH. 
