 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...shools, Or knappin-hammers. A set o' dull, conceited hashes, Confuse their brains in colledge-classes! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth...syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek! The poet then adroitly maneuvers the poem back to himself and his correspondent before wittily signing... | |
 | Donald A. Low - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 474 pages
...shools, Or knappin-hammers. A set o" dull, conceited Hashes, Confuse their brains in Colledge-classes \ They gang in Stirks, and come out Asses, Plain truth...Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, tho' namely in attire, May touch the heart.... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 1018 pages
...lines of this stanza from "Epistle toJ.L. L*****k [John Lapraik], an Old Scots Bard. April 1st, 1785": Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, tho' hamely in attire, May touch the heart.... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - Authors, English - 1995 - 866 pages
...John Lapraik', stanza 12: A set o' dull, conceited Hashes, Confuse their brains in Colledge-dasses! They gang in Stirks, and come out Asses, Plain truth...syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek! In the following stanza Burns asks for 'ae spark o' Nature's fire' so that 'My Muse, tho' hamely in... | |
 | Jay Sanford Shivers - Performing Arts - 2002 - 316 pages
...combine to produce experiences that enrich the lives of those involved. 15 Nature-Oriented Activities Gie me ae spark o' nature's fire, that's a' the learning I desire. — Robert Burns NATURE is THE MATERIAL WORLD THAT SURROUNDS HUMAN BEINGS AND Exists independently... | |
 | John Richetti - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 974 pages
...Confuse their brains in Colledge-classes! 13 They gang in Stirks, and come out Asses, [young bullocks] Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb...By dint o' Greek! Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, [one] That's a' the learning I desire; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, [plough]... | |
 | 532 pages
...furnish feeling, capacity, genius. He gave his opinion of these manufactured minstrels : * A set o' dull, conceited hashes, Confuse their brains in college...to speak ; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus " Gie me ane spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire ; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub... | |
 | Erin Gruwell - Education - 2007 - 808 pages
...which he took no interest. — TS ELIOT The beginning is the most important part of the work. — PLATO Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire. That's a' the learning I desire. . — ROBERT BURNS, FROM "EPISTLE TO J. LAPRAIK," POEMS, MAINLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT (1786) The... | |
 | James Wright - Literary Collections - 2008 - 676 pages
...reminded, took a turn or two of his own in the necessary labor of pronouncing maledictions upon A set o' dull, conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college...stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; And syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek. Your poem led me back to him, that great spirit,... | |
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A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o 
