“Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious,
O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.”
Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter
Source: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 57
Robert Burns: 114 citations0 J'aime
Robert Burns: Citations en anglais
Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter
Source: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 105
Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter
Source: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 33.
John Anderson, My Jo, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
“An' there began a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation.”
The Twa Dogs, st. 6 (1786)
“The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that.
For a' that an a' that.”
A Man's A Man For A' That, st. 1 (1795)
“T is sweeter for thee despairing
Than aught in the world beside,—Jessy!”
Robert Burns Here's A Health
Jessy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It was a' for our rightfu' King
We left fair Scotland's strand.”
It Was A' for Our Rightfu' King, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
“Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.”
Sensibility How Charming, st. 4
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
“If there's another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.”
Epitaph on William Muir
Posthumous Pieces (1799)
Robert Burns To a Louse
To a Louse, st. 8 (1786) http://www.poetry-online.org/burns_to_a_louse.htm
Bonny Lesley
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Ah, Tam! Ah! Tam! Thou'll get thy fairin!
In hell they'll roast you like a herrin!”
Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter
Source: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 201
“Some books are lies frae end to end.”
Death and Dr. Hornbook, st. 1 (1787)
“Ye're aiblins nae temptation.”
Address to the Unco Guid, st. 6 (1787)
