 What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns an' stools ; If honest nature made you fools, What sairs your grammars? Ye'd better taen up spades and shools, Or knappin-hammers. A set o' dull conceited hashes, Confuse their brains in...  Scenes at Brighton; or, 'How much?'. - Page 129by Innes Hoole - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1786 - 294 pages
...hardly verfe frae profe, * To mak a fang /" But by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're maybe wrang. What's a' your jargon o' your Schools, Your Latin names for horns an' ftools ; If honeft Nature made you fools, What fairs your Grammars ? Ye'd better taen u^fpades andjhools,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1798 - 308 pages
...hardly verfe frae pro/e, ' To mak ^fang?"1 But, by your leaves, my learned foes, . Ye're maybe wrang. What's a' your jargon o' your Schools, Your Latin names for horns an' {tools ; If honeft nature made you fools, What fairs your Grammars ? Ye'd better taen up fpades and... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1800 - 300 pages
...hardly verfe frae proff, f To mak a fang ?' But, by your leayes, my learned foes, Ye're maybe wrang. What's a' your jargon o' your Schools, Your Latin names for horns an' ftools ; If honeft nature made you. fools, What fairs your Grammars ? Ye'd better taen up fpades and... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...mak a sang?' Bnt, by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're may be wrang. What's a' your jargon o' j our schools, Your Latin names for horns an' stools ; If honest nature made you fools, What sairs your grammars? Ye'd better taen up spades and shools, Or knappin-hammers. V A set o' dull conceited... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...hardly verse firae prose, ' To mak a sang ?' But, by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're may be wrang. What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin...an' stools ; If honest nature made you fools, What sairs your grammars ? Ye'd better taen up spades and shools, Or knappin-hammers. A set o' dull, conceited... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...vthaken hardly verse frae prose, To mak a sang ?* But, by your leaves, my learned foes. Ye may be »rang. What's a* your jargon o' your schools. Your Latin...horns an' stools; If honest nature made you fools, Whatsairs yourgrammars, Ye'd better taen up spades an' shools, Or knappin-hammers. A set o' dull conceited... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...ken hardly verse frae prose, To mak a sang?' But, by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're maybe wrang. What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin...an' stools ; If honest nature made you fools, What sairs your grammars ? Ye'd better taen up spades and shools, A set o' dull, conceited hashes, Confuse... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...hardly verse frae prose, • To mak a sang ~ But, by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're may be wrang. What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin...an' stools ; If honest nature made you fools, What sairs your grammars .Ye'd better taen up spades and shools, Or knappin-hammers. A set o' dull, conceited... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...ken hardly verse frae prose, To mak a sang?' But, by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're maybe wrang. What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns an' stools ; If honest nature made you/oo&, What sairs your grammars ? Ye'd better taen up spades and shools, Or knappin-hammers. A set... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 504 pages
...drink the draught of (.inspiration at the fountain head ! For the present he said, with Burns — " What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin...an' stools; If honest nature made you fools, What sairs your grammars? Ye'd better ta'en up spades and shools, Or knappin hammers. A set o' dull conceited... | |
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