 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 lehte
...guid ; The frugal wifie, garrulous, will tell [bell. How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They,...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... | |
 | American Bible Society - 1914 - 610 lehte
...immortalized Scotland's peasant homes in his Cotter's Saturday Night,' in such words as these: "The cheerfri' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the Ingle, form a circle wide ; The elre turns o'er wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. And further he writes,... | |
 | 1829 - 526 lehte
...that beautiful picture for the poet, in this case not the inventor, but the painter of a portrait. The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face They round...turns o'er wi' patriarchal grace The big ha' Bible, once his father's pride : His honnet reverently is laid aside, His I) art hnffrts wenrin thin and bare,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 lehte
...the youth sae bashfu' an' sae grave ; Weel pleas'd to think her bairn 's respected like the lave.10 The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They,...The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'i Bible ance his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aaide, His lyarta haffets3 wearing... | |
 | 1830 - 472 lehte
...during the time the father lived in it, is thus described by the poet, in his Cotter's Saturday night: 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, once his father's pride. He wales a portion with judicious... | |
 | 1831 - 426 lehte
...the lad, her weel-hain'd kebbuck, fell. An' aft he's prest, an' aft he ca't it guid; The frugal wine, garrulous, will tell, How 'twas a towmond auld, sin*...The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace. The big ita'-Bible, anee his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 lehte
...towmondauld, sin' lint was i' the belt xn. The cheeVfti' supper done, wi' serious face, Tljejr'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 reVrently is laid aside, His ly art haffets wearing... | |
 | 1832 - 220 lehte
...spend, And weary o'er the moor, his course does homeward bend. The cheerful supper dono, with serions face They round the ingle form a circle wide, The...turns o'er wi patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, once his father's pride ; His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, • * * Then kneeling down, to HEAV'N'S... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 lehte
...Where none had ears to bear the voice of Fame. EVENING WORSHIP. [EURNs.] 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 his father's pride : His bonnet reverently is laid... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 lehte
...freedom! LESSON CXXXVIII. The Cotter's Saturday Night.—ROBERT BURNS. 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,t once his father's pride; His bonnet reverently is laid... | |
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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... 
