 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 ページ
...brings him ben; A itrappan youth; he taks the mother's eye; Bljthe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en ; How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage But Wathe and laithfu', scarce can weel behave; Tie mother, wi' a woman's wiles, can spy The father... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 ページ
...tame ; The tickled ear no heart-felt raptures raise ; Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise. The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How...eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny j Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of heaven's avenging ire ; Or, Job's pathetic... | |
 | Reminiscences - 1851 - 86 ページ
...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... | |
 | United States. 85th Cong., 2d sess., 1958, United States. Congress - 1958 - 224 ページ
...tame; The tlckl'd ears no heart-felt raptures raise; Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise. "The priest-like father reads the sacred page. How...fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. "Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope 'springs... | |
 | United States. 85th Cong., 2d sess., 1958, United States. Congress - 1958 - 222 ページ
...The tickl'd ears no heart-felt raptures raise; [203] Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise. "The priest-like father reads the sacred page. How...ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning He Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging Ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and walling cry; Or rapt... | |
 | 1901 - 498 ページ
...died at Dumphries, Scotland, in 1796.] And "Let us worship God," he says, with solem air. * » * * * The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How...fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. The precepts sage they wrote to many a land: How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a... | |
 | James D. Smart - 1954 - 212 ページ
...aim: Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive ' Martyrs,' worthy of the name. The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; 170 Then kneeling down,... | |
 | 1917 - 592 ページ
...all peoples affected by it, is to be found in a symbol in Robert Burns' "Cotter's Saturday Night." "The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high . . Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How he... | |
 | 496 ページ
...(Nashville: Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1925). JO. 5 THE SCOTTISH WATERFALL The priestlike father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or, Moses bad eternal warfare wage with Amalek's ungracious progeny . . . Perhaps the Christian volume is the... | |
 | Kathryn Teresa Long - 1998 - 273 ページ
...religious exercises within the family circle: The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abratn was the friend of God on high; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays.113 spective... | |
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The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God 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 avenging ire ; Or Job's... 
