 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 364 pages
...Looks round him, and found them Impatient for the chorus. TUNE—"Jolly Mortals, fill your Glasses." Mark our jovial ragged ring ! Round and round take up the chorus, See ! the smoking bowl before us, And in raptures let us sing. CHORUS. A fig for those by law protected... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1887 - 400 pages
...round him, an' found them Impatient for the chorus. AIR. TUNE — 'JOLLY MORTALS. FILL YOUR GLASSES.' SEE! the smoking bowl before us, Mark our jovial ragged...round take up the chorus, And in raptures let us sing : CHORUS. A fig for those by law protected I Liberty's a glorious feast I Courts for cowards were erected,... | |
 | William Henry Thorne - English literature - 1886 - 194 pages
...Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest. " What is title ? what is treasure ? What is reputation's care ? If we lead a life of pleasure, "Tis no matter how or where. ******* " Life is all a variorum; We regard not how it goes ; Let them... | |
 | Robert Brydall - Art - 1889 - 498 pages
...dogs, &c., but his works were chiefly of a domestic kind, such as his Jolly Beggars (RA, 1846)— " See the smoking bowl before us, Mark our jovial, ragged...round take up the chorus, And in raptures let us sing. " Some of his pictures have been engraved, among which are a series of twelve illustrations from Burns,... | |
 | J. B. Reid - Burns - 1889 - 586 pages
...with Anna! S. The gowd. Locks of A. In raptures sweet this hour we meet, The Jolly Beggars. S. VII. Round and round take up the Chorus, And in raptures let us sing . . . . Ib. S. VIII. Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gies to me. . 6'. Turn... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1887 - 730 pages
...him, an' found them Impatient for the chorus. TUNE — " Jolly Mortals, Jill your glasses." SEP. ! the smoking bowl before us, Mark our jovial ragged...round take up the chorus, And in raptures let us sing : A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected,... | |
 | Robert Burns - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1892 - 130 pages
...round him, and found them Impatient for the chorus. AIR. TUNE— Jolly Mortals, Fill Your Glasses. See the smoking bowl before us ! Mark our jovial,...round take up the chorus, And in raptures let us sing. CHORUS. A fig for those by law protected! Liberty 'sa glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected,... | |
 | Hugh Walker - Dialect literature, Scottish - 1893 - 274 pages
...a song which sums up its philosophy, and is besides one of the most spirited in our anthology :— "See the smoking bowl before us! Mark our jovial ragged...round take up the chorus, And in raptures let us sing. Chorus.—"A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected,... | |
 | Hugh Walker - English literature - 1893 - 272 pages
...song which sums up its philosophy, and is besides one of the most spirited in our anthology : — " See the smoking bowl before us ! Mark our jovial ragged...round take up the chorus, And in raptures let us sing. Chants. — " A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - English poetry - 1893 - 386 pages
...Liberty's a glorious feast 1 Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest. What is title ? what is treasure ? What is reputation's care? If we lead a life of pleasure, "Tis no matter how or where. With the ready trick and fable, Round we wander all the day ; And at night,... | |
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A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest. What is title ? what is treasure ? What is reputation's care ? If we lead a life of pleasure, 'Tis no matter, how or... 
