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" Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows... "
Selections from the works of Taylor, Hooker, Barrow [and others] by B. Montagu - Page 86
by Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839
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Ranthorpe

George Henry Lewes - 1847 - 368 pages
...Then gently scan your brother man ; Still gentler sister woman. Though they may gang a kennin' wrong: To step aside is human. One point must still be greatly...lamely can ye mark How far, perhaps, they rue it. BURNS. He [was a man who preached from the text of his own errors; and whose wisdom, beautiful as a...
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The Churchman's companion, Volume 7

1850 - 716 pages
...and charitable are his observations on the subject in hand, especially the concluding verse : " Wha made the heart 'tis He alone, Decidedly can try us...its various bias. Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted." LINES On...
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Walks of Usefulness, Or, Reminiscences of Mrs. Margaret Prior

Margaret Prior - 1848 - 342 pages
...— " Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman, Tho' they may gang sae gronsome wrang, To step aside is human. One point must still...lamely can ye mark, How far, perhaps, they rue it."— BURNS 24<A. Being in the vicinity of Church street <his afternoon, 1 was led to spend an hour or two...
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Robert Burns: As a Poet, and as a Man

Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 222 pages
...example. " Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still...as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it." The singular beauty of the form in which the virtue of charity is here exhibited, is owing to the application...
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Robert Burns: As a Poet, and as a Man

Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 232 pages
...Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrong, To step aside is human: One point must still be greatly...as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it." The singular beauty of the form in which the virtue of charity is here exhibited, is owing to the application...
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An Essay on English Poetry: With Notices of the British Poets

Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 452 pages
...brother man, Still gentlier sister woman, Though they may gang a kenuin wrong ; To step aside is human. " Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try...its various tone, Each spring, its various bias." " To gild refined gold, to paint the rose, Or add fresh perfume to the violet ;"* but to debase the...
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An Essay on English Poetry; with notices of the British poets. [Edited by ...

Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pages
...brother man, Still gentlier sister woman, Though they may gang a kenuin wrang ; To step aside is human. " Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try...its various tone, Each spring, its various bias." It is still more surprising that a critic, capable of so eloquently developing the traits of Burns's...
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Robert Burns: As a Poet, and as a Man

Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 228 pages
...Still gentler sister woman ; ' Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, ' To step aside is human : ' I One point must still be greatly dark,; / The moving...why they do it : ' / And just as lamely can ye mark | I How far perhaps they rue it.'" The singular beauty of the form in which the virtue of charity is...
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The Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Life

Robert Burns - 1849 - 906 pages
...instance, the momentous truth of the passage — " One point must still be greatly dark, The moving »Ay they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentlier sister woman — Though they may gang a kennin' wrang...
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volume 119

1907 - 504 pages
...our greatest good. Das Problem, das Burns im Äddress to the Uhco Guid (HH, I, 217), Str. 7, anregt: One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it; And just äs lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it — hatte schon Pope im Essay on Man (Epistle I)...
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