 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 pàgines
...grace, The hig ha -Bihle, mire his father's pride : His honnet rev'reiuly is laid aside, 12* POEMS. He wales a portion with judicious care ; And ' Let us worship GOD !' he says, with solemn air. XIII. They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; They tune their hearts, hy far the nohlest aim... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1837 - 426 pàgines
...Burns has so exquisitely described — in reading the " big Ha' Bible," and chanting " holy lays." ' They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; They...hearts, by far the noblest aim ; Perhaps Dundee's wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy of the name, Or noble Elgin* beats the heavenward... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 pàgines
...a portion with judicious car* ; And ' /-••' w KOfthip COG 1' h« say», with solemn air. XIII. They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : [rise ; Perhap« Duwlce't wild warbling measures Or plaintive Martyn, worthy of the name ; Or noble... | |
 | 1837 - 598 pàgines
...voice led the humble choir within, that beautiful stanza of Burns's Saturday Night:— " They chaunt their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim/' &c. It was near the dinner-hour before we reached the house, and presently I saw assembled a larger... | |
 | 1837 - 446 pàgines
...aside, His lyart haffits wearing thin an' bare ; Tkosc strains that once dir! sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship GOD I " he says, with solemn air. Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The snint, the father, and... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 790 pàgines
...quire within, that beautiful stanza of Burns's Saturday Night : — " They chaunt their artless notée in simple guise ; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim," &c It was near the dinner-hour before we reached the house, and presently I saw assembled a larger... | |
 | 1838 - 790 pàgines
...pride : " Of strains, that once did sweet in Zion glide, " He wales a portion with judicious care; l< And : Let us worship God!' he says with solemn air....hearts, by far the noblest aim ; " Perhaps Dundee's wild warbling measures rise, " Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy o' the name." How is the soul drawn upward... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pàgines
...He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !" he says, with solemn air. XIII. They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; They...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... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pàgines
...aside, His ly art hallets wearing thin an' hare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, en, With powers as far ahove dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold XIII. They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; They tune their hearts, hy far the noblest aim... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pàgines
...laid aside, His lyart hafiets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, XIII. They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim... | |
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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;... 
