 | United States. 85th Cong., 2d sess., 1958, United States. Congress - 1958 - 224 Seiten
...The sire turns o'er, with patriarchial grace. The big ha'-bible, ance his father's pride: * * * * • He wales a portion with Judicious care; And 'Let us...hearts, by far the noblest aim; Perhaps 'Dundee's' wild-warbling measures rise; Or plaintive 'Martyrs,' worthy of the name; Or noble 'Elgin' beets the... | |
 | United States. 85th Cong., 2d sess., 1958, United States. Congress - 1958 - 222 Seiten
...sire turns o'er, with patrlarchlal grace, The big ha'-blble, ance his father's pride: * • * • • He wales a portion with Judicious care; And 'Let us...hearts, by far the noblest aim; Perhaps 'Dundee's' wild-warbling measures rise; Or plaintive 'Martyrs,' worthy of the name; Or noble 'Elgin* beets the... | |
 | James D. Smart - 1954 - 212 Seiten
...after the evening meal, the father with the big family Bible before him, " And ' Let us worship God I' he says, with solemn air. They chant their artless...rise, Or plaintive ' Martyrs,' worthy of the name. The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or Job's pathetic... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 Seiten
...provisioned." cried Heyward. cheerfully, "and may set Montcalm and his allies at defiance. ..." CHAPTER VI. "Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide;...And 'Let us worship God.' he says, with solemn air." BURNS. Heyward, and his female companions, witnessed this mysterious movement with secret uneasiness;... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1985 - 1388 Seiten
...perpendicular rock, that rose to the height of a few yards, within as many feet of the water's edge. Chapter VI "Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide;...And let us worship God, he says, with solemn air." Burns, "The Cotter's Saturday Night," 11. 106-108. HEYWARD, and his female companions, witnessed this... | |
 | James Rawlings Sydnor - 1989 - 148 Seiten
...psalms in his poem "The Cotter's Saturday Night." The father reads scripture and then, writes Burns, They chant their artless notes in simple guise: They...plaintive "Martyrs," worthy of the name; Or noble "Elgin" beets [feeds] the heavenward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays. Burns comments on this... | |
 | Geddes MacGregor - 1990 - 292 Seiten
...pnde: His bonnet reverently is laid aside. His lyart haffets u=eann ' thin and bare; Those itrains that once did sweet in Zion glide He wales a portion...And "Let us worship God!" he says with solemn air. — Robert Burns, The Cotter's Saturday \ight J_ O understand the religion of a people is to understand... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1992 - 388 Seiten
...perpendicular rock, that rose to the height of a few yards, within as many feet of the water's edge. Chapter 6 Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide; He...care; And 'Let us worship God,' he says, with solemn air.40 HEYWARD and his female companions witnessed this mysterious movement with secret uneasiness;... | |
 | Donald A. Low - 1974 - 474 Seiten
...ha'bible, ance his father's pride: His bonnet reverently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare, Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide,...And 'let us worship God,' he says with solemn air. The canker-tooth of the most envious criticism cannot well fasten on a work in every respect so perfect... | |
 | Leigh Eric Schmidt - 2001 - 320 Seiten
...ha'-Bible, ance his Father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare; Those strains that once did sweet in ZION glide,...'And let us worship GOD!' he says with solemn air. True religion consisted in such simple acts of family devotion, not in festivity, pageantry, and pomp:... | |
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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... 
