 | George Gleig - 1812 - 142 pages
...an' ^nger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin f " O wad some pow'r the giftie gi'e us, To see ourselves as others see us ! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion : What airs in dress an" gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion 1" IN the Address... | |
 | Scotland - 1832 - 1042 pages
...then be enabled to realize the poet's wish, " Ob, wad kind Heaven the giftie gie us» To see ourselves as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An foolish notion," and the very malice that exults in our anticipated destruction may prove like the... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1841 - 296 pages
...imTHE TOO HASTY REPROOF. 171 perfections before I ventured to rebuke those of another. " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see...frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." If it were only half as easy to amend ourselves, as to reprove others ; and if in giving advice we... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Christian life - 1779 - 296 pages
...imTHE TOO HASTY REPROOF. 171 perfections, before I ventured to rebuke those of another. " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see...frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." If it were only half as easy to amend ourselves, as to reprove others ; and if in giving advice we... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Thought and thinking - 1843 - 264 pages
...before I ventured to rebuke those of another. " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." If it were only half as easy to amend ourselves, as to reprove others ; and if in giving advice we... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Gift books - 1843 - 256 pages
...BATS FLIGHT BY DAYLIGHT. A FABLE. " O, wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursels, as ithers see us; It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." BURNS. A BAT one morn from his covert flew To show the world what a Bat could do, By soaring off on a lofty... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...who has sung even for your instruction — " Oh, would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion : What airs in gait and dress wad lee us. And even in devotion." Burns was a ploughman — not a menial... | |
 | Robert Hovenden - 1850 - 210 pages
...himself by an actual and continual straying from the truth : — " Oh, wad some pow'r the giftic gic 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 eVn devotion !" It will not be amiss, then, to contemplate... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English periodicals - 1853 - 564 pages
...herself? There is not one of the sex who should not incessantly exclaim with Burns — О wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others...wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion. In that case you would lose the foolish notion of imagining yourself a genius, and then attend a little... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 pages
...ken what cursed speed The blastie's makin' ! Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin' ! Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels...wad frae mony a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion 1 ®jru Storahrrij. IN ANSWER TO A MANDATE... | |
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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 an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion ! THE WHISTLE. 
