 | 1850 - 652 pagine
...knew, at least, both how to appreciate and how to describe : " 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, once hie father's pride. • * • « * He wales a portion with judicious care, And, let... | |
 | 1892 - 678 pagine
...Allan in the possession of John Mair, Esq., Plantation, Glasgow. The cheerful supper done with serious face They round the ingle form a circle wide, The Sire turns o'er wi' patriarchal grace The big ha' Bible once his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside,... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pagine
...lint was i' the bell. The frugal wifie, garrulous, will tell, The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They round the ingle form a circle wide; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, * His lyrant haffets wearing thin and bare... | |
 | 1863 - 896 pagine
...the door. How when — "The cheerfu' srpper done wi' serious face, They round the ingle form acircle wide; The sire turns o'er with patriarchal grace, The big ha' bible, once his father's pride ; and how — "The priest-like father reads the sacred page," and — "kneeling... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pagine
...temples. wi' = with, wales = chooses. ance = once, nae = no. ***** THE checrfu' supper1 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,... | |
 | 1922 - 620 pagine
...the characteristic scene which he so graphically describes : 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,... | |
 | United States. 85th Cong., 2d sess., 1958, United States. Congress - 1958 - 224 pagine
...following excerpt is offered as Justification for that assertion: "The cheerfu' supper done, wl' serious face. They, round the ingle, form a circle wide; The sire turns o'er, with patriarchial grace. The big ha'-bible, ance his father's pride: * * * * • He wales a portion with... | |
 | United States. 85th Cong., 2d sess., 1958, United States. Congress - 1958 - 222 pagine
...following excerpt is offered as Justification for that assertion: "The cheerfu' supper done, wl' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide; The sire turns o'er, with patrlarchlal grace, The big ha'-blble, ance his father's pride: * • * • • He wales a portion... | |
 | Geddes MacGregor - 1990 - 292 pagine
...essential for the future of higher education in Britain. 6 Religion 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 faither's pnde: His bonnet reverently is laid aside.... | |
 | Donald A. Low - 1974 - 474 pagine
...placed by the frugal and happy mother before the lothful stranger. 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,... | |
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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... 
