 | David Macbeth Moir, Mansie Wauch (fict. name.) - 1879 - 236 стор.
...nefarious pillaging of our hen-house. CHAPTER XX. ADVENTURES IN THE SPOUTING LINE. " A flg for them by law protected, Liberty's a glorious feast ; Courts...were erected, Churches built to please the priest." — Jolly Beggars. " Wi' cauk and keel I'll win your bread, And spindles and whorles for them wha need,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1881
...Liberty 'sa glorious feast I Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the Driest. What is title? what is treasure? What is reputation's...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, in barn or stable, Hug our... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1883
...quench their lowin' drouth." And their chorus rolls about like thunder, shaking the rafters and walls. " A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious...title ? What is treasure ? What is reputation's care 1 If we lead a life of pleasure, 'Tis no matter how or where ! With the ready trick and fable, Hound... | |
 | Robert Martin Adams - 1986 - 555 стор.
...roisterers, roaring the chorus of their defiance at respectable society, could only be the work of Bums: A fig for those by law protected, Liberty's a glorious...were erected, Churches built to please the priest. Among those he called the "unco guid," the prissy and strait-laced of Scotland, Bums naturally had... | |
 | Donald A. Low - 1995 - 447 стор.
...the train-attended carriage, or on the sober bed of matrimony. The curtain drops as they all shout, A fig for those by law protected, Liberty's a glorious...were erected, Churches built to please the priest. There is nothing in the language which, for life and character, approaches this singular 'cantata.'... | |
 | A. James Reichley - 2002 - 285 стор.
...despair."30 Romanticism also tapped into the independent spirit expressed by folk poets like Robert Burns: A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious...were erected, Churches built to please the priest. Romanticism's defining moment came with the French Revolution of 1789. Here at last was a concrete... | |
 | Charles A. Knight - 2004
...the fiddler for the evening. It is the bard, the hero of the piece, who articulates its final moral: A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious...were erected. Churches built to please the priest. (lines 306-09) The Saturnalian occasion of the poem could hardly be more pronounced. It takes place,... | |
 | Murray Pittock - 2008 - 304 стор.
...and others have noted, Burns's similarity to Blake is compelling. The two often sound almost alike: 'A fig for those by LAW protected, LIBERTY'S a glorious...were erected | CHURCHES built to please the Priest', as Burns puts it in 'Love and Liberty' (K84, 11. 278-8 1 ). These two poems (K84, K108) were not published... | |
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What is title? What is treasure? What is reputation's care ? If we lead a life of pleasure 'Tis no matter how or where... 
