 | Great Britain - 1831 - 470 pages
...o'clock ; there is a something in your very look, however smart, shall prate " of your whereabouts." " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, the man's the gowd for a' that ;" — granted: but, oh! ye want that stamp most sadly, in seeking to vie with the fashionable,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...that! For a' that, and a' that. Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine. Wear hodden-gray, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a' that.... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 236 pages
...The coward-slave, we pass hhn by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toil's obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's...stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on name)/ fare we dine, Wear Jioddin gray, and a' that ; Gie foola their silko, and knaves their wine... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 370 pages
...The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toil's obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that ! II. What tho' on Lamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks,... | |
 | Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick - New England - 1834 - 258 pages
...FORTUNES OF A NEW-ENGLAND BOY. BY THE AUTHOR OP THE "MORALS OP PLEASURE," AND "THE YOONO EMIGRANTS." " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, ; The man's the gowd for a' that." BURNS. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. NE WY ORK : PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NO. 82 CLIFF-STREET,... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure and a' that, The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The mau's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin-grey, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a' that.... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1837 - 684 pages
...pass him by, For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, SCRAP No. V. We dare be poor for a' that: And a' that; The rank is but The guinea's stamp, The MAN'S the gowd for a' that. ii. What! though On homely fare we dine, Wear hodden grey, And a" that; Give fools their silks,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1837 - 690 pages
...attractions. In poverty or lowly birth may be found all that may worthily inspire devoted affection.— " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." In the very dunghill of dissipation and disgrace will be raked up occasionally a lurking pearl... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 650 pages
...truth in that fine, sturdy, plebeian line which he has so often heard quoted, but never before felt: "The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd, for a' that !" England's " upper classes" have too long scorned to believe that men were men ; her "lower"... | |
 | 1839 - 880 pages
...poverty That hangs liis 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,...guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. " What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden grey and a' that ? Gie fools their silks, and knaves their... | |
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