 My lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise: To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequester'd...  The Complete Works Of Robert Burns - Page 801845Full view - About this book
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 pages
...My loved, my honour'd, much-respected friend No mercenary bard his homage pays ; With honest prido I scorn each selfish end ; My dearest meed, a friend's...native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken iu a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I weeu. November... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...BURNS'S " COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT." Mv loved, my honored, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard tortured wave here find repose ; But, raging still... ˀ Z ` c"O 1856 J. P. Jewett and sequestered scene, The natire feelings strong, the guileless ways Which A in a cottage would have been... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...BURNS'S " COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT." Mr loved, my honored, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard bis 1 1`h 1 yon I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequestered scene, The native feelings... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays ; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end : My clearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise. To you I sing,...in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequestered scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken in a cottage would... | |
 | Scotland. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] - English poetry - 1856 - 602 pages
...poor. — QBAV MY lov'd, my honor'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays; WMt honest pride, I scorn each selfish end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways, What Aiken in a cottage would have been: Ah ! though... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...NIGHT. Inscribed to Robert Aiken, Esq. My loved, my honor'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays ; With honest pride I scorn each selfish...native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween November... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...the Cottar's Saturday Night, — " My loved, my honour'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays ; With honest pride I scorn each selfish...end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise." All that he hoped to make by the Kilmarnock edition was twenty pounds to carry him to the West Indies,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...the Cottar's Saturday Night, — " My loved, my honour'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays ; With honest pride I scorn each selfish...end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise." All that he hoped to make by the Kilmarnock edition was twenty pounds to carry him to the West Indies,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...the Cottar's Saturday Night, — " My loved, my honour'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays ; With honest pride I scorn each selfish...end, My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise." All that he hoped to make by the Kilmarnock edition was twenty pounds to carry him to the West Indies,... | |
 | James White - Authors, Scottish - 1858 - 316 pages
...Goldsmith of the Vicar of Wakefield. My lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays ; With honest pride, I scorn each...native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aikin in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween ! November... | |
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