 | Reminiscences - 1851 - 86 pàgines
...are paid ; and now we have an illustration of that scene which Burns so beautifully describes* — " The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high : * This, however, I am sorry to say, is not true in very many instances. Or Moses bade eternal warfare... | |
 | josiah conder - 1851 - 168 pàgines
...flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays. Compared with these, Italian trills are tame; The tickled ears no heartfelt raptures raise; Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise." Before we take leave of the Poets of the seventeenth century, we must be allowed to dwell for a short... | |
 | josiah conder - 1851 - 168 pàgines
...flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays. Compared with these, Italian trills are tame; The tickled ears no heartfelt raptures raise; Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise." Before we take leave of the Poets of the seventeenth century, we must be allowed to dwell for a short... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 288 pàgines
...however " highly esteemed among men," must be " an abomination in the sight of God." " The tickled eavs no heart.felt raptures raise ; Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise." I now commit my little book to the judgment of intelligent and pious teachers. To what extent singing... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 792 pàgines
...lays : Compared with these, Italian trills are tame ; The tickled ears no heartfelt raptures raise j Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise. The...groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire j Or, Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pàgines
...presently fall to the earth, and become a part of it. THE COTTER READING HIS BIBLE. The pricst-liko father reads the sacred page. How Abram was the friend...Heaven's avenging ire : Or Job's pathetic plaint and \vailing cry, Or rapt Isaiah's wild seraphic fire ; Or other holy suera that tune the sacred lyre.... | |
 | 1852 - 800 pàgines
...are profitable for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. " The priest-likc father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on hi^'h ; Or Moses bade etern.il warfare «яце \Vith Amalek's ungiaciou* pii'g^ny; OUR HOMES. " Pethap«... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pàgines
...The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays : Compared with these, Italian trills are tame : The tickled ears no heart-felt raptures raise ; Nae unison hae...on high ; Or Moses, bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek.'s ungracious progeny ; Or how the royal Bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's... | |
 | 1853 - 888 pàgines
..." the big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride," and, unbonneting his gray hairs, reads reverently, " How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With AmaleV's migrations progeny ;" or, perhaps, if the Christian volume is the theme, " How he who in lone... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pàgines
...heav'nward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays : Compar'd with these, Italian trills are tame ; The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How...on high ; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Anialek's ungracious progeny; Or, how the Royal Bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's... | |
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