 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 Seiten
...Jenny, and finally the evening meal. He then proceeds : — XII. 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'renlly is laid aside,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 Seiten
...Weel pleas'd to think her bairn's 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 Seiten
...might : They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright ! 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,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 Seiten
...Jenny, and finally the evening meal. He then proceeds : — XII. 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 Seiten
...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, with patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haflets wearing... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 Seiten
...will tell, How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint wasT the bell. 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 is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...tell, How 'twas a towmond4 auld, sin' lint was i' the bell.5 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,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1874 - 544 Seiten
...Burns might write a Grecian Cotter's Saturday Night, where — " 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,... | |
 | 1845 - 440 Seiten
...How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the hell. XII. The cheerfu* supper done, wi' serious lace, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The hig ha'-Bihle, anee his father's pride : His honnet 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... 
