| Health - 1830 - 336 páginas
...from barley, by distillation. It produces very potent effects upon its votaries. Bring but a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a highland gill,...He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. BURNS. The praises and admonitions of this ardent spirit cannot be better set forth, as well as those... | |
| 1831 - 426 páginas
...he someümes s'udied Polin . отег a filüí of ¡;aid ai:ld Sevteh Drink. Rnt bring a Scotsman frae his hill. Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George't will, An' there's the foe. He has пае thought but how to kill TwaatablDW. Nae cauld, faint-hearted... | |
| Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 páginas
...The description of the Scotsmen is humorous : " Bat bring a Scotsman frao bin bill, Clap In bis check a' Highland gill, Say such Is Royal George's will, An' there's the foe, He hu nae thought but how to kill Twa al a blow." Here the notion of danger rouses the imagination of... | |
| Robert Burns - 1834 - 236 páginas
...rin, All skelpt — a shot; — they're aft* a throwther. To save their skin. But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal Gear/re's will, An' there's the foe. He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted... | |
| Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 páginas
...Scotsman is humorous ; " But bring a Scotsman frae Ins hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill,-)Say, such is royal George's will, An' there's the foe ;...He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow." Here the notion of danger rouses the imagi. nation of the poet. He goes on thus : " Nae cauld faint-hearted... | |
| Charles James Napier - 1835 - 312 páginas
...neither doubt nor faintheartedness. We must then recollect the words of Burns:— " But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, ••;• . , ... ." Clap in his cheek...highland gill, " Say such is royal George's will, " And there's the foe ; " He has nae thought but how to kill " Twa at a blow." With such a single,... | |
| John Kay - 1838 - 402 páginas
...doughty heroes to whom .Burns alludes in his " Earnest Cry and Prayer,"— " But bring a Scotsman free his hill — Clap in his cheek a Highland gill —...George's will, An' there's the foe — He has nae thocht but how to kill Twa at a blow." John nobly supported the character of his countrymen at the... | |
| John Dunlop - 1839 - 360 páginas
...blythe and frisky, She eyes her free-born, martial boys, T,-kaff their whisky." " But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a highland gill,...He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow." It has been said of the Scotch, that the term " Temperance," in its continental acceptation, is yet... | |
| Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 páginas
...rin, Till skelp— a shot — they're aff, a' throu'ther, To save their skin. But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill,...Say, such is royal George's will, An' there's the foe ; lie has пае thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doublings tease him... | |
| Robert Burns - 1840 - 368 páginas
...rin, Till skelp — a shot — they're aif, a' throwther, To save their skin. But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, And there's the foe, He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doublings... | |
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