 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1876 - 626 pagina’s
...conceited hashes, Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb...Nature's fire ! That's a' the learning I desire; Then though I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart. My muse, though namely in attire, May touch the... | |
 | P. F. Aiken - 1876 - 454 pagina’s
...conceited hashes,2 Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks,3 and come out asses, Plain truth to speak ; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek ! Gie me a spark o' Nature's tire, That's a' the learning I desire ; Then though I drudge through dub an' mire... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 pagina’s
...conceited hashes,2 Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks,3 and come out asses, Plain truth to speak ; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek ! Gie me a spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire ; Then though I drudge through dub an' mire... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Melville Bell - 1876 - 184 pagina’s
...conceited hashes, Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak ; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek ! " Meanwhile time was passing, and he was effecting little ; idleness was bringing in dissipation.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1880 - 1024 pagina’s
...gang in stirks, and come out asses, bulloeki Plain truth to speak ; EPISTLE TO LAtfRAIE. f!786. And syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek!...Nature's fire ! That's a' the learning I desire ; Then though I drudge through dub and mire At pleugh or cart, [pudiut My Muse, though hamely in attire, May... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1877 - 812 pagina’s
...college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak. And soon they trunk to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek. Gie me ae spark...Nature's fire ! That's a' the learning I desire. Then though I trudge through dub and mire, At pleugh or cart, My muse, though hamely in attire, May touch... | |
 | James Brown - 1878 - 258 pagina’s
...their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak. And syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek....Nature's fire ! That's a' the learning I desire. Then though I trudge through dub and mire, At pleugh or cart, My muse, though hamely in attire, May touch... | |
 | James Brown Selkirk - 1878 - 266 pagina’s
...their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak. And syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek....Nature's fire ! That's a' the learning I desire. Then though I trudge through dub and mire, At pleugh or cart, My muse, though namely in attire, May touch... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 pagina’s
...conceited hashes, Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak ; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek ! Gi'e me a spark o' Nature's fire, That 's a' the learning I desire ; Then though I drudge through dub an' mire... | |
 | James Brown Selkirk - 1878 - 260 pagina’s
...me ae spark o' Nature's fire ! That's a' the learning I desire. Then though I trudge through dub and mire, At pleugh or cart, My muse, though hamely in attire, May touch the heart. And yet — not to detract one moment from the infinite credit he had in the little culture he so manfully... | |
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A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o 
