 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 oldal
...beauties a' abread ! Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie's makin ! Thae winks andjinger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others ste us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 oldal
...head, An' set your beauties a' abread ! Ye little ken What cursed speed The blastie's inakin ! Tliae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! O wad some pow'r the gifte gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae moule a blunder free us And foolish notion... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 oldal
...head, An' 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 ! O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us I It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - 444 oldal
...beauties a' abread t Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie's makin ! Thae winks wn&jinger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us I It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1820 - 458 oldal
...beauties a' abread ! Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie's makiu ! Thae winks andjinger-ends, 1 dread, Are notice takin ! O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see ourselt as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 oldal
...head, An' 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 !...pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see ys! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e... | |
 | 1822 - 376 oldal
...threw them all into the fire, and determined to leave the communication to accident. CHAPTER XIV. Oh, wad some pow'r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us ! It wad fiae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And e'en... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 oldal
...An' set your beauties a' abread ! Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie's makin ! Thae winhs and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! O, wad some pow'r the gif'tie gie us _, To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs... | |
 | 1823 - 494 oldal
...Sottrnal*. ON SHOOTING WITH A LONG BOW. Oh ! wad some pow'r the giftie gie us, To tee our sel' s as other i see us, It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.— BURNS. " Shooting with a long bow" is a figurative expression for a very prevalent, but contemptible... | |
 | Caroline Fry - 1830 - 392 oldal
...mean little else than conformity to the narrow ideas of the individual who uses it. No. XXIV. A FABLE. O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels...wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion. BURNS. THE searcher after hidden wealth has sometimes found a treasure scarcely less valuable, though... | |
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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... 
