...Here's to all the wandering train ! Here's our ragged brats and callets ! One and all cry out — Amen ! A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious...were erected, Churches built to please the priest. XV. DEATH AND DR. HORNBOOK. A TRUE STORY. [John Wilson, raised to the unwelcome elevation of hero to...

...Liberty 'sa glorious feast I Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the Driest. What is title? what is treasure? What is reputation's...lead a life of pleasure, 'Tis no matter how or where. With the ready trick and fable, Round we wander all the day? And at night, in barn or stable, Hug our...

...quench their lowin' drouth." And their chorus rolls about like thunder, shaking the rafters and walls. " A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious...title ? What is treasure ? What is reputation's care 1 If we lead a life of pleasure, 'Tis no matter how or where ! With the ready trick and fable, Hound...

...roisterers, roaring the chorus of their defiance at respectable society, could only be the work of Bums: A fig for those by law protected, Liberty's a glorious...were erected, Churches built to please the priest. Among those he called the "unco guid," the prissy and strait-laced of Scotland, Bums naturally had...

...the train-attended carriage, or on the sober bed of matrimony. The curtain drops as they all shout, A fig for those by law protected, Liberty's a glorious...were erected, Churches built to please the priest. There is nothing in the language which, for life and character, approaches this singular 'cantata.'...

...despair."30 Romanticism also tapped into the independent spirit expressed by folk poets like Robert Burns: A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious...were erected, Churches built to please the priest. Romanticism's defining moment came with the French Revolution of 1789. Here at last was a concrete...

...the fiddler for the evening. It is the bard, the hero of the piece, who articulates its final moral: A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious...were erected. Churches built to please the priest. (lines 306-09) The Saturnalian occasion of the poem could hardly be more pronounced. It takes place,...

...and others have noted, Burns's similarity to Blake is compelling. The two often sound almost alike: 'A fig for those by LAW protected, LIBERTY'S a glorious...were erected | CHURCHES built to please the Priest', as Burns puts it in 'Love and Liberty' (K84, 11. 278-8 1 ). These two poems (K84, K108) were not published...