 | 1847 - 560 pages
...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, He wales a portion with judicious... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 pages
...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, His lyart haffets* wearing... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1847 - 282 pages
...we meet any thing like the " Cotter's Saturday Night?" The checrfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They round the ingle form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er wi' patriarchal grace Thc big /m' Bible, ance his father's pride ; His bonnet reverently is laid aside, His lyart haifets... | |
 | 1922 - 620 pages
...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, His lyart hafiets wearing... | |
 | United States. 85th Cong., 2d sess., 1958, United States. Congress - 1958 - 224 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. 85th Cong., 2d sess., 1958, United States. Congress - 1958 - 222 pages
...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 pages
...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. His lyart haffets u=eann... | |
 | Donald A. Low - 1974 - 474 pages
...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...big 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... | |
 | J. Cheryl Exum, Stephen D. Moore - 1998 - 518 pages
...been read as typifying ancient Scottish piety's deep treasuring of the Bible. Those well-known lines, 'The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, /The big ha'bible, ance his father's pride', have tended to be generalized by readers of Burns and writers on Burns to such an extent that they... | |
 | Leigh Eric Schmidt - 2001 - 320 pages
...Night" paints a warm, touching scene of family worship: The chearfu' 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 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 care;... 
