 | Joel Parker - 1847 - 152 pagina’s
...With what beauty and truthfulness has Burns drawn the picture in his " Cotter's Saturday Night!" " 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... | |
 | 1847 - 490 pagina’s
...With what beauty and truthfulness has Burns drawn the picture in his " Cotter's Saturday Night ! " ' 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... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1847 - 282 pagina’s
...glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And, Let us worship God ! he says with solemn tir. They chant their artless notes in simple guise, They tune their hearts, by far their noblest aim Perhaps Dundee's wild warbling measures rise, Or sainted Martyrs worthy of the name,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pagina’s
...that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And ' Let ut wonhip God !' he says with solemn air. They chant their artless...guise ; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim ; Perhaps Dundee's wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy o' the name . Or noble... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 452 pagina’s
...Peter's manly voice led the humble choir within, that beautiful stanza of Burns's Saturday Night : — " They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; They tune their hearts, hy far the noblest aim," &c. It was near the dinner-hour before we reached the house, and presently... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 pagina’s
...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 Peter Mathieson's arm that administered "that respectful shove" to the literary Earl of... | |
 | 1863 - 896 pagina’s
...that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And lei us worship God! he says with solemn air. They chant their artless...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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pagina’s
...did sweet in Zioii glide — He wales9 a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship GOD !" he says with solemn air. They chant their artless...guise ; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim ; Perhaps Dundee's10 wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive Martyrs,10 worthy of the name ; Or noble... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pagina’s
...sweet in Zion glide, He wails a portion with judicious care; And 'Let us worship God,' he says wi' solemn air. 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: Compar'd... | |
 | Edward Feild (bp. of Newfoundland.) - 1831 - 130 pagina’s
...sacred music exert a more delightful and beneficial influence, than in ihefamily circle, where while " They chant their artless notes in simple guise They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim." It is thus that the sweet incense of praise will be made to ascend to God, from the altar of every... | |
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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;... 
