heaven-taught

The Edinburgh literati worked to sentimentalise Burns during his life and after his death, dismissing his education by calling him a “heaven-taught ploughman.”

robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

But to claim authorship of the poem would have lessened its authenticity in the eyes of Burns, who relished his own reputation as a "heaven-taught ploughman."

Visiting an Auld Acquaintance Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

Thou, with the heaven-taught bard, in peace resort

The Odyssey of Homer 2003

For they, with a heaven-taught affection, willingly gave me what they abounded with from Thee.

The Confessions 1999

The writer of that song was, like Caedmon long ago, a son of the soil, he, too, was a "heaven-taught ploughman."

English Literature for Boys and Girls

Thrice hail, thou heaven-taught warbler, last and best

On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton

And so, since he is a heaven-taught man, we must listen while he speaks and give heed to his entreaties.

And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses J. Wilbur Chapman

She looked right in his eyes: his met hers steady and hard as flints, and through the blind passion of her look he saw her soul leap up, appealing, piteous, and by heaven-taught instinct, he answered that.

Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant

(1709–1773) 4111For his chaste Muse employ’d her heaven-taught lyre

Quotations 1919

(1709–1773) 1For his chaste Muse employ’d her heaven-taught lyre

Quotations 1919