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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... "
The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Page 516
1821
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Speeches and Essays

Jean Armour Burns Club (Washington, D.C.), John Wilson - 1908 - 118 pages
...after which the curtain falls. The first id last verses I quote : '* See ! the smoking bowl before ua, Mark our jovial ragged ring ! Round and round take up the chorus, And iu ruptures let us slug. CHORUS. — "A fiy.for those by taw protected ! Liberty 'ua fjloriowt fetmt...
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The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns ...

Robert Burns - 1909 - 692 pages
...round him, an' found them Impatient for the chorus. Air. Tums — " 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 ! Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were...
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Poems, Songs, and Letters: Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns

Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - Hymns - 1910 - 706 pages
...round him, an' found them Impatient for the chorus. AIR. TUNE—' folly 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's a glorious feast ! I Courts for cowards...
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A Book of English Literature, Volume 1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 468 pages
...his wrath; Now they're Grouse1 and cantie3 baith; Ha, ha, the wooin o't! 40 From THE JOLLY BEGGARS 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 ! 5 Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected,...
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English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement

George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...round him, an ' found them Impatient for the chorus :— Am TUNE — Jolly Mortals, Fill Tour Glasses CJiorut A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected,...
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Some Authors: A Collection of Literary Essays 1896-1916

Walter Raleigh - English literature - 1923 - 348 pages
...many years earlier, he wrote with no less fervour of conviction in praise of quite another ideal ; 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...
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The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh (1879-1922)

Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - Critics - 1926 - 328 pages
...the authorities if I continue to lecture virginibus puerisque in the strain I felt moved to adopt. "What is title, what is treasure, What is reputation's care? If we lead a life of pleasure Tis no matter how nor where," were among the lines that had my commendation for their open-hearted...
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Songs and Poems of Robert Burns

Ralph Knight - Literary Criticism - 1959 - 246 pages
...protected! Liberty's a glorious feast, Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest! See the smoking bowl before us! Mark our jovial, ragged...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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