 | Religious poetry, English - 1833 - 292 pages
...His lyart haffets wearing thin and hare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care, And "Let us worship...Dundee's wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive Martyrs', worthy of the name ; Or noble Elgin's beats the heavenward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1833 - 346 pages
...families you might witness all that is pure and sublime in the scene contemplated by the Scottish bard. " They chant their artless notes in simple guise : They...Dundee's wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy of the name : Or noble Elgin beats the heav'nward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Families - 1833 - 358 pages
...families you might witness all that is pure and sublime in the scene contemplated by the Scottish bard. " They chant their artless notes in simple guise : They...Dundee's wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy of the name : Or noble Elgin beats the heav'nward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 348 pages
...His lyart haffetst wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He walesj a portion with judicious care : And, ' Let us worship God !' he says, with solemn air." The latitudinarianisra of the Scottish dialect in r yming, jingling,ormerelyalliterative vowelsounds,... | |
 | James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 632 pages
...His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care; * And let us worship God !' he says with solemn air. " Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 528 pages
...lyart haffets * wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales fa portion with judicious care : And, ' Let us worship God ! ' he says, with solemn air." The latitudinarianism of the Scottish dialect in rhyming, jingling, or merely alliterative vowel sounds,... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 206 pages
...He wales a portion with judicious care ; And Let ua worship Ood .«' he says with solemn air*1 Xril. They chant their artless notes in simple guise They...tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim • Perhaps nundee'a wild warbling measure's rise Or plarfllve Martyrs, worthy of the name • Or noble Elgin heats... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 370 pages
...His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, 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, by far the noblest aim... | |
 | Robert Burns - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 420 pages
...His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare. Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He walea a portion with judicious care, And ' let us worship God,' he says with solemn air." The canker-tooth of the most envious criticism cannot well fasten on a work in every respect so perfect... | |
 | 1835 - 562 pages
...with enthusiasm ; and the Bohemian brethren solaced themselves in the earlier days of persecution. ' They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim. » * * * » Compar'd with these, Italian thrills are tame; The tickled ears no heart-felt raptures... | |
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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... 
