 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin' ! Oh wad some power the giftic gie us To see oursel's as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion : What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And even devotion ! The Two. Herds had... | |
 | Horace Wemyss Smith - United States - 1856 - 92 pages
...that he has become the butt and laughing stock of his acquaintance. " 0, wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae manie a blunder free us, An foolish notion !" The extraordinary pains taken by Mr. Reed, to circulate... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...mill, Supplied wi' store o' water, Or in that better-known stanza, — " Oh wad some power 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 e'en devotion ! " Burns had an ambition... | |
 | Mary Guignard - 1857 - 390 pages
...true or false, so quickly produces an unbecoming confidence in manner ? ' 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 !' How quickly should we then discover the immense superiority of moral over physical... | |
 | Alice Fay - 1857 - 370 pages
...CHAPTER XXIII. Oh had some Power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us ! It had frae mong a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait, had lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion! ROBERT BURNS. " ALL the worlds' a stage and all the men and women... | |
 | 1857 - 336 pages
...And still the clap plays clatter." Or in that better-known stanza, — " Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monio a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait -wad lea'c us And e'en devotion... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1859 - 408 pages
...some power the giftie gie ns To see onrsels as others see us! It wad fra monie a blander free as, And foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion! BURNS. WHAT a scene of self-delusion is this busy world of ours, Where no man truly estimates his failings... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - 630 pages
...ambitious career; and then, finding good in everything, he exclaims — "O wad some Power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae mcyiy a blunder free us, And foolish notion. What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, Affd ev'n fie'votion... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...And still the clap plays clatter." Or in that better-known stanza,— " Oh wad some power 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 e'en devotion I" Burns had an ambition... | |
 | Horace - 1860 - 664 pages
...that which Horace dwells upon in this satire : " О wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel s as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion." 3. Sardns. See note, Sat. i., 2, 3. The epithet seems here contemptuous, as the Sardinians were in... | |
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us an' foolish notion: what airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, and ev'n Devotion! 
