 | 1844 - 784 pages
...country. The well known lines of Burns arc as applicable to nations as to individuals : ' O wad somc power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ;' for the distortions of vanity and self-love are almost as great and as ludicrous in the one case... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pages
...blastie's inakin ! Tliae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! O wad some pow'r the gifte gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae moule a blunder free us And foolish notion i What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, EPISTLE TO J.... | |
 | James Hogg - 1821 - 352 pages
...will bless you," added she, " for this unmerited kindness to a poor friendless orphan." " O wad some power the giftie gi'e us, To see oursels as others see us I" says Burns ; but I have often thought this prayer should be reversed ; for if we knew the motives... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 pages
...The blastie's makin ! Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! O, wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion... | |
 | 1822 - 376 pages
...the fire, and determined to leave the communication to accident. CHAPTER XIV. Oh, wad some pow'r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us ! It wad fiae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And e'en... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...The blastie's makin ! Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...cursed speed The blastie's makin ! Thae winks and finger ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us I It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e as,... | |
 | Caroline Fry - 1830 - 392 pages
...conformity to the narrow ideas of the individual who uses it. No. XXIV. A FABLE. O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion. BURNS. THE searcher after hidden wealth has sometimes found... | |
 | G. Hamilton - 1831 - 318 pages
...and Folly , and has done for a class what the Bard of Coila has supplicated for all: « О wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. » This is a clever production full of character and spirit by a rising artist of much promise : it... | |
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as others see us! 
