 Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion!  The Listener - Page 230by Caroline Fry Wilson - 1867Full view - About this book
 | George Gleig - 1812 - 142 pages
...an' ^nger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin f " O wad some pow'r the giftie gi'e us, To see ourselves as others see us ! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion : What airs in dress an" gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion 1" IN the Address... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...winks and tinger-ends. 1 dread, Are notice takin ! O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion! 1 Bustle, • Hive. * It is a well-known... | |
 | Scotland - 1832 - 1042 pages
...then be enabled to realize the poet's wish, " Ob, wad kind Heaven the giftie gie us» To see ourselves as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An foolish notion," and the very malice that exults in our anticipated destruction may prove like the... | |
 | Commerce - 1840 - 572 pages
...repeat the modest prayer of Robert Burns, before he utters the war-whoop of criticism— " O, would some power the giftie gie us, To see onrsels as others see us !" He might reflect that the eyes of great men arc never microscopic, and that there is such a thing... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1841 - 296 pages
...perfections before I ventured to rebuke those of another. " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." If it were only half as easy to amend ourselves, as to reprove others ; and if in giving advice we... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Christian life - 1779 - 296 pages
...perfections, before I ventured to rebuke those of another. " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." If it were only half as easy to amend ourselves, as to reprove others ; and if in giving advice we... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Gift books - 1843 - 256 pages
...BATS FLIGHT BY DAYLIGHT. A FABLE. " O, wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursels, as ithers see us; It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." BURNS. A BAT one morn from his covert flew To show the world what a Bat could do, By soaring off on... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...who has sung even for your instruction — " Oh, would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion : What airs in gait and dress wad lee us. And even in devotion." Burns was a ploughman — not a menial... | |
 | Robert Hovenden - 1850 - 210 pages
...actual and continual straying from the truth : — " Oh, wad some pow'r the giftic gic us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae mony a blunder free us. And foolish notion. What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And eVn devotion !" It will not be amiss, then, to contemplate... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English periodicals - 1853 - 564 pages
...who should not incessantly exclaim with Burns — О wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion. In that case you would lose the foolish notion of imagining yourself a genius, and then attend a little... | |
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