 | United States - 1844 - 648 pages
...poverty, That hanss Ins head, and a' that T The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that, <The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd fur a' that. о • '. — ' When they reached the fields in the... | |
 | United States - 1844 - 638 pages
...poverty, That bancs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd fur a' that. When they reached the fields in the neighborhood of... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 742 pages
...was not from the inspiration of thy time-serving muse that he enunciated the noble exclamation — " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gow'd for a' that. It is somewhat strange that our two principal Scottish dramas should inculcate the same doctrine.... | |
 | Scotland - 1844 - 834 pages
...dignity of the human soul, because he has never forgotten that amidst all the distinctions of time, " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." Because he has regarded himself as the high-priest of Nature, and the world which we inhabit... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...bend every way, and debases the stamp he bears.' Everybody will remember the passage in Burns — ' The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.' It is most unlikely that Burns ever read Wycherley. Still, it is possible; and we therefore... | |
 | England - 1844 - 828 pages
...dignity of the human soul, because he has never forgotten that amidst all the distinctions of time, " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." Because he has regarded himself as the high-priest of Nature, and the world which we inhabit... | |
 | African American songs - 1845 - 234 pages
...poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that ; The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor, for a" that ; For a' that and a' that ; Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd, for aj that, What though on homely fare we dine, Wear hodden graytmd... | |
 | James Pycroft - Universities and colleges - 1845 - 428 pages
...me a true heart under a threadbare waistcoat,' and quote honest Burns: — c 5 ' A man's a man for a' that. The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a' that.' " " What do you say of the society of the two universities ? I think with C&rbett about being proud and stiffnecked... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 266 pages
...which it is derived. Such persons cannot have read Burns. Or do they think that such sentiments as " The rank is but the guinea stamp, the man's the gowd for a' that," are all very fine in verse. but have no place in the prose of life, no application among men... | |
 | Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 pages
...poverty, That hangs his head and a' that : The coward-slave, we pass him by, And dare be poor for a' that. For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a* that. BURNI. BEFORE a month had passed, all was settled;... | |
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THAT AND A' THAT Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that? The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a 
