heaven-taught

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Visiting an Auld Acquaintance

• “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

• “Thou, with the heaven-taught bard, in peace resort”

  The Odyssey of Homer

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

  The Confessions

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

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

  Quotations

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

  Quotations

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