 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 pages
...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 oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,... | |
 | 1822 - 376 pages
...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,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...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 oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,... | |
 | Caroline Fry - 1830 - 392 pages
...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 as others see us, It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion. BURNS. THE searcher after hidden wealth has... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...what cursed speed The blastie's9 niakin! Thae winks and tinger-ends. 1 dread, Are notice takin ! O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And... | |
 | Ellen Pickering - 1834 - 256 pages
...to please ; His motions all accompanied with grace, And paradise was opened in his face. DRYOKH. Oh, 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 : What airs in dress a'n gait wad lea'e us.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 236 pages
...ken what cursed speed The blastie's makin ! Tbae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! 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 ; What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,... | |
 | Charles Rochfort Scott - 1838 - 460 pages
...make a combined attack upon it; * Where envy reigns, there virtue cannot live. The lines of Burns, " O wad some pow'r, the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us !" he undertaking to engage Beltran in the project by making a diversion in our favour to draw off... | |
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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 : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion ! ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH. 
