 | 1824 - 706 pages
...we pass him by; We dare be poor for a' that, For a' that, and a' that Our toils obscure and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, — The man 's the gowd for a' that." The mechanic has just as good a chance to shine in the best society of the world as any other man,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp ; The man 's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on namely fare we dine, Wear hodden-grey, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...him by, We dare he 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 hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1846 - 484 pages
...never ceasing, ever varying, of the pedestrian ! Jfuaa pedestris ! EXCELLENCE INDEPENDENT OF RANK. " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man 's the gowd for a' that." IT is related of Richard Savage, that in his youth he expressed a contempt for the middle class of... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1874 - 714 pages
...WAC, and caused some confusion. What Massinger really says is in effect just what Burns says : — " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man 's the gowd for a' that" T. MACGRATH. NOTES ON BOOKS, Ac. The Letten and the Life of Francis Bacon. Including all his Occasional... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...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 ! What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...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 ! What tho' on namely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...him hy, 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 hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - Poor women - 1855 - 444 pages
...institutions which sustained such ideas have fallen to pieces. It is understood, even in Europe, that " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man 's the gowd for a' that, A man 'sa man for a' that." And being such, has a claim on this earth for something better than the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1855 - 504 pages
...anticipated, also, the idea contained in that famous couplet which was never read without a thrill : — " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man 's the gowd for a' that." ting to the diamond, &c. ; and he sums up with a simile which the reader will perceive is exactly equivalent... | |
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THAT, AND A' THAT. Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that ; The coward slave — we pass him by ! We dare be poor for a 
