 LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a...  Works - Page 304by Sir Walter Scott - 1923Full view - About this book
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. Ye '11 try the world soon, my lad, And, Andrew dear, believe me, Ye '11 find mankind an unco squad,"... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...other end Than just a kind memento. But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. Ye '11 try the world soon, my lad, And, Andrew dear, believe me, t Mr. AA Alliin, now of Liverpool,... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1841 - 254 pages
...repeating what Robert Burns has said in the beginning of a poetic epistle written to a friend : — " Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon ;" — or rather expressing the fear, that what I shall be able to say to you on the present occasion,... | |
 | 1845 - 604 pages
...TRADE ; OK, SUNBEAMS FROM CUCUMBERS. ' How the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon." — Burn». THE art of extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, which, probably, at no period of the world's... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...end Than just a kind memento ¡ But how the suhject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. II. Ye'll try the warld soon, my lad, And, Andrew dear, helieve me, Ye'll find mankind an unco squad,... | |
 | Proteus (pseud.) - 1846 - 1018 pages
...— Helps forward the history. But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. BURNS. — Epistle to a young friend. Herbert signified, on separating, that he should forego their... | |
 | Proteus (pseud.) - 1846 - 1018 pages
...8.—Helps forward the history. But how the subject-theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. BURNS.—Epistle to a young friend. Herbert signified, on separating, that he should brego their company... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 570 pages
...faith, philosophy, and gastronomy. ' And how the subject theme may gang Let tJDie and chance determine ; Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon.' In most cases, we are compelled to say, a painful exhibition of flippancy and sciolism is the result... | |
 | James M. Morrison - 1847 - 126 pages
...hale breeks to wear, An' routh o' money. MOSES McCAMMON. 48 EPI8TLES. ANSWER TO MR. MOSES McCAMMON " PERHAPS it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon." BURNS. CANTY auld carl o' the woods, We gat your welcome greetin', An' Rab an me hae quat the scuds,... | |
 | Pictor (pseud.) - 1848 - 118 pages
...will have no reason to doubt his claim to that of a poet. For even the contingency in the lines of Burns — ' "Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon." could be applied with very little confidence to a mind 6f so ungovernable a cast as that of this gentleman... | |
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