 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pągines
...three which were used by William Burnes, who had no greater variety. Or noble Elgin beets* the heavenly flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays ; Compared...tame; The tickl'd ears no heart-felt raptures raise } No unison have they with our Creator's praise. The priest-like father reads the sacred page,f How... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 636 pągines
...nan.c, Or noble Elgin beets the heav'n-ward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's hoi/ lays : Compar'd with these, Italian trills are tame; The tickl'd ears no heart-felt raptures raise ; Kae unison hae they with our Creator's praise. The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pągines
...flame. The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays : Compar'd with these, Italian trills are tame; The tickPd ears no heart-felt raptures raise ; Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise. XIV. The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of GOD on high ; Or, Moses... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pągines
...measures rise, Or plaintive Jlfartyr's, worthy *f the name ; Or noble Elgin beets(6) the heaven-ward flame. The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays : Compared with these, Italian trills are tame; The tickled ears no heart -felt raptures raise ; >'ae unison hae(7) they with our Creator's praiSe. XIV.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 pągines
...name; Or noble Elgin beets the heav'n-ward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays: Compar'd with these, Italian trills are tame; The tickl'd ears...raise; Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise." — Burns's poetical epistles to his friends are admirable, whether for the touches of satire, the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1820 - 470 pągines
...Or Or noble Elgin beets the heav'n-ward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays : Compar'd wi' these, Italian trills are tame ; The tickl'd ears...raise ; Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise. xrv. The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of GOD on high; Or, Moses... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 pągines
...name : Or noble Elgin beets the heav'nward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays : Compar'd with these, Italian trills are tame ; The tickl'd...raise ; Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise. XIV. Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Jlmalek's ungracious progeny ; Or how the royal bard... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pągines
...name; Or noble Elgin beets the heav'n-ward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays: Compar'd with these, Italian trills are tame; The tickl'd ears no heart-felt raptures raise; Nat- unison hae they with our Creator's praise." • TO MARY IN HEAVEN. " Thou lingering star, with... | |
 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 pągines
...warbling measures rise, Or plaintive Martyr'?, worthy of the name; Or noble Elgin's beats the heaven-ward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays. Compared with these, Italian trills are tame : The tickled ears no heart-felt raptures raise ; No unison have they with our Creator's praise. The priest-like... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pągines
...warbling measures rise, Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy of the name : Or noble Elgin beets the heavenward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays : Compared with these, Italian thrills are tame ; The tickled ears no heart-felt raptures raise 5 Nae unison hae they with our Creator's... | |
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They chant their artless notes in simple guise, They tune their 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 heavenward flame. 
