 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 pages
...their evening devotions:— " The cheerful supper done, with serious face, They, round the ingle, t form a circle wide; The sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace, The big AoH-Bible, once his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets$ wearing... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...tell, How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the hell. XII. The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious nd, discretion, like a vapour sinks, And wi' patriarchal grace, The hig ha' Bible, ance his father's pride : His honnet reverently is laid aside,... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...in which he died — a stranger to the power of Divine grace! The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They round the ingle form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside,... | |
 | Religion - 1839 - 460 pages
...joy in that scene so graphically drawn by the Scottish bard : "The cheorfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They round the ingle form a circle wide; The sire turns o'er, wi! patriarchal grace, The big Ha' Bible, ance his father's pride; Of strains, that once did sweet... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...in the still house of prayer. FLORENCE WILSON. FAMILY WORSHIP. THE cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ! The Sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big Ha' Bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside,... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...eat. LESSON XLIV. The Cotter's Saturday Night. — Urn .vs. 1 THE cheerful supper done, with serious face, They round the ingle,* form a circle wide ;...The sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, f once his father's pride ; His bonnet reverently is laid aside, t His lyartj haffets§... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...will tell How 'twas a towmond auld sin' lint was i' the bell. The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They round the ingle form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet reverently is laid aside,... | |
 | William Maxwell Gunn - Religious education - 1840 - 496 pages
...he was accustomed to use it at school as a common schoolbook. The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They round the ingle form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride ; His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...ludicrous, though painted on purpose. THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT. " The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face They round the ingle form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er with patriarchal grace The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet reverently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing... | |
 | 1745 - 522 pages
...the beautiful lines in Burns' " Cotter's Saturday Night :" " The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face They round the ingle form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace, The big ha' bible, ance his father's pride ; His bonnet rev'rently laid aside, His lyart hafltets wearing thin... | |
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The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care... 
