...III. a poet in John Barbour, who, as he turned Bruce into a hero of romance, wrote with full heart : " Ah, Freedom is a noble thing ! Freedom makes man to have liking ; Freedom all solace to man gives : He lives at ease that freely lives." John Barbour, born perhaps in 1316,...

...know the famous passage which is the very key-note of that poem ? One is never tired of quoting it:— Ah ! freedom is a noble thing; Freedom makes man to have liking: Freedom all solace to man gives; He lives at ease that freely lives. A noble heart may have nane ease, Xe ellys...

...the famous passage which is the very key-note of that poem ? One is never tired of quoting it : — Ah ! freedom is a noble thing ; Freedom makes man to have liking : Freedom all solace to man gives ; He lives at ease that freely lives. A noble heart may have nane ease, Ne...

...case, do not resolve so rashly to abandon the means of liberty, the best gift that Heaven gives !—O, well sung a poet of my own land— ' Ah, freedom is...Freedom the zest to pleasure gives— He lives at case who freely lives. Grief, sickness, poortith, want, are all Summ'd up within the name of thrall.'...

...do not resolve so rashly to abandon the means of liberty, the best gift that Heaven gives ! — O, well sung a poet of my own land — ' Ah, freedom is a noble thing — Freedom makes man to have likingFreedom the zest to pleasure gives — He lives at ease who freely lives. Grief, sickness, poortith,...

...lanterne al hia life after." Take now these few lines from John Harbour of the eamo period : — " Ah, freedom is a noble thing ! Freedom makes man to have liking; Freedom all solace to man gives ; He lives at ease that freely lives. A noble heart may have none ease, Nor...

...treated then sae wickedly, That their faes their judges were : What wretchedness may man have mair ? Ah, Freedom is a noble thing ! Freedom makes man to have liking ;2 Freedom all solace to man gives ; He lives at ease that freely lives ! A noble heart may have nane...

...treated then sae wickedly, That their faes their judges were : What wretchedness may man have mair ? Ah, Freedom is a noble thing ! Freedom makes man to have liking ; 2 Freedom all solace to man gives ; He lives at ease that freely lives ! A noble heart may have nane...

...do not resolve so rashly to abandon the means of liberty, the best gift that Heaven gives ! — 0, well sung a poet of my own land — Ah, freedom is...freely lives. Grief, sickness, poortith, want, are all Summed up within the name of thrall.'" She listened with a melancholy smile to her guide's tirade in...

...shall find generous protectors — Oh, while this is the case, do not resolve so rashly to abandon the means of liberty, the best gift that Heaven gives...freedom is a noble thing, — Freedom makes man to have likingFreedom the zest to pleasure gives — He lives at ease who freely lives. Grief, sickness, poortith,...