 | Joseph Ritson - 1810 - 232 Seiten
...you, I pray you stay ; How dame you now so gallant and gay, Thou went but a begging the other day ? Bonny Scot, we all witness can, That England hath made thee a gentleman. Thy blue bonnet, when thou came hither, Could scarce keep out the wind and weather : But now it is... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1818 - 890 Seiten
...3*. 6d. either with a view to have it deducted, or because 1 thought it unreasonable : I only wi&hed it could have been avoided. ' Only 3s. !' You seem...is really so ludicrous, and so lamentable, that one docs not know whether to laugh or cry. I hope you will take care that a piece of eloquence so interesting... | |
 | 1822 - 424 Seiten
...volens ;" and as he said these words he walked Somerset out of the garrison singing in his face : — Bonny Scot, we all witness can, That England hath made thee a gentleman, Thy blue bonnet when thou came hither, Could scarce keep out the wind and weather ; But now it is turned... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - 1833 - 262 Seiten
...avoided. " Only three shillings !" You seem to forget that three shillings sterling is near two pounds Scots, and that there has been a time when the mighty...eloquence so interesting and important to society does not perish with its author. Suppose you were to draw it up as a communication for the next volume... | |
 | Joseph Ritson, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1833 - 314 Seiten
...avoided. " Only three shillings !" You seem to forgot that three shillings sterling is near two pounds Scots, and that there has been a time when the mighty...eloquence so interesting and important to society does not perish with its author. Suppose you were to draw it up as a communication for the next volume... | |
 | Joseph Ritson, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1833 - 262 Seiten
...avoided. " Only three shillings !" You seem to forget that three shillings sterling is near two pounds Scots, and that there has been a time when the mighty...eloquence so interesting and important to society does not perish with its author. Suppose you were to draw it up as a communication for the next volume... | |
 | Joseph Ritson, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1833 - 270 Seiten
...puissant Monarch of iland had not such a sum in his Treasury. ?e is altered, I perceive, at present ; but have you to thank for it ? " Bonny Scot we all witness can That England hath made thee a gentleman." • narrative of the dying moments and last jf poor Cumyng is really so ludicrous and entable, that... | |
 | James I (King of England) - 1835 - 174 Seiten
...little of that character, and is withal a fair and clever pasquinade, as to entitle it to notice here. " Bonny Scot, we all witness can. That England hath made thee a gentleman. Thy blue bonnet, when thou came hither, Could scarce keep out the wind and weather, But now it is turned... | |
 | Alexander Macdonald - 1835 - 178 Seiten
...little of that character, and is withal a fair and clever pasquinade, as to entitle it to notice here. " Bonny Scot, we all witness can, • That England hath made thee a gentleman. Thy hlue bonnet, when thou came hither, Could scarce keep out the wind and weather, But now it is turned... | |
 | 1840 - 566 Seiten
...of his collections : " How came you now so gallant and gay, Thou went but a begging the other day? Bonny Scot, we all witness can That England hath made thee a gentleman. " Thy blue bonnet, when thou came hither, Could scarce keep out the wind and weather ; But now it is... | |
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You seem to forget that three shillings sterling is near two pounds Scots, and that there has been a time when the mighty and puissant Monarch of all Scotland had not such a sum in his Treasury. The case is altered, I perceive, at present; but whom have... 
