 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pagine
...sae grave ; Weel pleas'd to think her bairns respected like the lave. " 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,... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pagine
...glad spirit loves Its Country and its God I MRS. HEMANS. 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'reutly is laid aside,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pagine
...will tell, How 'twas a towmond ** auld, sin' lint was i' the bell -ft. 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... | |
 | 1847 - 560 pagine
...this is merely an axiom of its advocates, assumed, but not proved. " The cheerful supper done, wi' serious face They round the ingle form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er wi' patriarchal grace The big hall Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet reverently is laid aside,... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 pagine
...Austria will you meet aught so beautiful or thrilling as the following ? " 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,... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1847 - 300 pagine
...the crowning grace of the poem is the account of the 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 reverently is laid aside,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pagine
...garrulous will tell, How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell. The cheerfn' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The hig- Ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride ; His bonnet rev'rently is laid... | |
 | Thomas Bush (of Lamborne.) - 1849 - 224 pagine
...bright pure gem thrown amid the mire. Thus he describes family devotion. " 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... | |
 | 1863 - 896 pagine
...childhood witnessed such a scene, and whose manhood never forgot it, describe it to us — '. -wi' serious face, They round the ingle, form a circle...grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride : His lyart haffeU wearing thin and bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion... | |
 | 1850 - 652 pagine
...well 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... | |
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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... 
