| Robert Burns - 1885 - 310 páginas
...round him, an' found them Impatient for the chorus. Air. Tune—"Jol\y Mortals, fill your Glasses." See the smoking bowl before us, Mark our jovial ragged...were erected, Churches built to please the priest. What is title, what is treasure, What is reputation's care ? If we lead a life of pleasure, 'Tis no... | |
| Robert Burns - 1885 - 364 páginas
...the smoking bowl before us, And in raptures let us sing. CHORUS. A fig for those by law protected I Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest. What is title ? what is treasure ? What is reputation's care ? If we lead a life of pleasure, 'Tis... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1886 - 256 páginas
...Here's to all the wandering train ! Here's our ragged bairns and callets ! One and all cry out, Amen ! A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious...were erected ! Churches built to please the priest ! Then read this : Drink to lofty hopes that cool — Visions of a perfect state : Drink we, last,... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1886 - 270 páginas
...ragged bairns and callets I One and all cry out, Amen ! A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty 'sa glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected ! Churches built to please the priest! Then read this : Drink to lofty hopes that cool — Visions of a perfect state : Drink we, last, the... | |
| William Henry Thorne - 1886 - 194 páginas
...fanciful morality, the gist of which is all given in the chorus to this fibrous piece of mischief: " A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious...were erected, Churches built to please the priest. " What is title ? what is treasure ? What is reputation's care ? If we lead a life of pleasure, "Tis... | |
| William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1888 - 572 páginas
...unbeliever. It works among the illiterate. The chorus in Burns's " Jolly Beggars " gives voice to it : " A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious...were erected, Churches built to please the priest." 2. A second and more plausible theory antagonistic to the credibility of the New Testament is the so-called... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1892 - 216 páginas
...Here's our ragged bairns and callets ! One and all cry out, Amen ! A fig for those by law protected 1 Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected ! Churches built to please the priest ! Then read this : Drink to lofty hopes that coo! — Visions of a perfect state ; Drink we, last,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1892 - 132 páginas
...ragged brats and callets ! One, and all cry out, Amen ! A fig for those by law protected! Liberty 'sa glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest. THE TARBOLTON LASSES. Fair Peggy lives on yon hill-top, A girl both bright and ready ; She knows her... | |
| Hugh Walker - 1893 - 272 páginas
...a song which sums up its philosophy, and is besides one of the most spirited in our anthology : — "See the smoking bowl before us! Mark our jovial ragged...were erected, Churches built to please the priest. "What is title? What is treasure? What is reputation's care ? If we lead a life of pleasure, 'Tis no... | |
| Robert Burns - 1893 - 354 páginas
...Here's to * all the wandering train, Here's our ragged brats and callets, One and all cry out, Amen ! Chorus. A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's...cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest.1 1 VAR. "prate "(MS.). « VAR. "Here is "(MS.). 3 In the MS. in the Edinburgh University Library... | |
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