 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...have sent you, Tho' it should serve no other end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. Ye'll try the world soon, my lad, And Andrew, dear, believe me, Ye'll find mankind an unco squad, And... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...sent you, Though it should ierve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps...it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon. Ye'll try the world soon, my lad, And, Andrew dear, believe me, Ye'll find mankind an unco squad, And... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 528 pages
...Scotland. I pledge myself to no particular line of subjects ; but, on the contrary, say with Burns. Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. have only to add, by way of postscript to these prelim nary chapters, that 1 have had recourse to Moliere's... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...sent you, Tho' it should serve no other end Than just a kind memento ; « But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps...may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. ii. Ye'U try the world soon, my lad, And Andrew, dear, believe me, Ye'll find mankind an unco squad, And... | |
 | Yachting - 1856 - 592 pages
...beyond your power to save me, and so with your leave Mr. Editor we will begin. "But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine, Perhaps...it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon." A gentleman, who has since afforded us much pleasure by his agreeable chronicle of a " Cruise through... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...sent you. Though it should serve nae other end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. Ye '11 try the world fu' soon, my lad, And, Andrew dear, believe me, Ye '11 find mankind an unco squad,... | |
 | 1856 - 386 pages
...To them all, I tender my wishes for their future success and happiness." <£Mtor's How the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn oufra sermon. BURNS. VERILY, gentle Reader, the occasion calleth for moralizing, rather than the j... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...others see us ! It wad frae nionie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion. Epistle to a Young Friend. Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. The fear o' hell 'sa hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order ; But where ye feel your honor grip,... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - Etiquette - 1857 - 506 pages
...von, Tho' it may servo no other end Than just a kind memento : Hut how the subject-theme may pang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon." TABLE OF CONTENTS LETTER I. DRESS. of conforming to Fashion, with a dne Regard for individual Peculiarities... | |
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LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a... 
