 | Charles James Sawyer, Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton - Best books - 1927 - 440 pages
...Kelmscott Press types .... 375 CHAPTER I Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, Thafs a' the learning I desire ; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My muse, tho' homely in attire, May touch the heart. ROBERT BURNS : Epistle to John Lapraik. AN ELEGY... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 pages
...would have annoyed Pope's critic: 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. Burns was by no means so untaught as this would seem... | |
 | Johanne Clare - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 248 pages
...could reply with blithe assurance: 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. 10 The notion that creative genius lies beyond the... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 396 pages
...[Lapraik], An Old Scotch Bard, lines 73-4 (Wordsworth: Play and Politics, p. 42n). The elided lines are: "Then tho" I drudge thro" dub an' mire / At pleugh or cart." 23 This process continues into the composition of Lyrical Ballads, and contributes to Wordsworth's... | |
 | Donald A. Low - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 474 pages
...climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek ! 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' namely in attire, May touch the heart. NOTES 1 To David McWhinnie [17 April 1786]. Letters... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 1018 pages
...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. These are the same sentiments that Burns had prefixed... | |
 | John Richetti - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 974 pages
...Parnassus 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] My Muse, tho' namely in attire, May touch the heart.' No amount of Greek or Latin, it seems,... | |
 | 532 pages
...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 an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, though hamely in attire, May touch the heart." BURNS, THE ARTIST. He was an artist — a painter... | |
 | 1920 - 758 pages
...impossible to deny the dignity of place. 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' hainely in attire. May touch the heart. Burns was right. J^The appeal which the poet makes... | |
 | English literature - 1926 - 700 pages
...climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek. Gie me ae spark o' nature's fire, That's a1 the learning I desire ; Then — tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My muse, tho' homely in attire, May touch the heart. although too, he saw himself in essential moments... | |
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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. 
