Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark How far, perhaps, they rue it.... Isabel Denison - Page 3by Lady Emily Ponsonby - 1848Full view - About this book
| 1838 - 358 pages
...into the faults I see in others. If those four lines of Burns's were of'tener brought before us — " Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a minnen wrang, To step aside is human" — we should less often be wanting in that virtue so highly... | |
| 1812 - 140 pages
...tendency as any that BURNS has published ; and concludes with the two following admirable stanzas : " Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister...they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark... | |
| 1816 - 1052 pages
...Decidedly can try as ; He knows each ctvtrd — its various tone, Ei'.ch spring, its various bias. Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; Whit's done we partly may compute, But know not what'» resitted, How happened it that the recollection... | |
| 1843 - 750 pages
...alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord, its various tone, Each spring, its various bias. Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it : Wliat's done we partly may compute, But never what's resisted." At the same time, to keep open our... | |
| Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pages
...convenience snug, A treacherous inclination— But, let me whisper i' your lug, Ye're aiblins nae temptation. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister...they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human: One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it: And just as lamely can ye mark, How... | |
| Mrs. Grey (Elizabeth Caroline) - 1829 - 220 pages
...self-destruction, would, in the appointed time, lead her to the faith from which she'had wandered. CHAPTER XXIX. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler,...they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human. Who made the heart ? 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us. BURNS. THE first intelligence that Lucy Neville... | |
| Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1829 - 226 pages
...Mr. Mortimer then shook hands kindly with Constance, and returned to the rectory. CHAPTER XXVII. :1 Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin wring To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dork, The moving why they do it ; And... | |
| Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1829 - 256 pages
...kindly with Constance, and returned to the rectory. CHAPTER XXVII. '•' Then gently scan your hrother man., Still gentler sister' woman ; Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside ie human : One point must still he greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just as lamely can... | |
| Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 312 pages
...Believe me, however unworthy reciprocal esteem, " Ever most sincerely yours, " BELNOVINE." CHAPTER XXI. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister...they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark... | |
| 1833 - 480 pages
...not onljr a feeling poet, but a sound philosopher. "Judge not that ye be not judged." — Jeiui. Oh gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kenning wrong, To step aside is human. One point must still be greatly dark. The moving it-Ay they... | |
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