 | A. T. Blacksmith, John Witherspoon, Lord Henry Home Kames, John Horne Tooke - 1824 - 98 pages
...crowd; one seems very devout and serious, and the next moment is scolding and cursing his neighbor, for squeezing or treading on him; in an instant •...there is such an absurd mixture of the serious and comic, that were we convened for any other purpose, than that of worshipping the God B 14 A LETTER... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 pages
...themselves from die crowd : one seems very devout and serious, and the next moment is scolding and cursing be right 'Till ye've got on it, The vera tapmost,...your nose out, As plump and grey as onie grozet ; 0 comic that, were we convened for any other purpose than that of worshipping the God and Governor of... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...moment is scolding and cursing his neighbour for squeezing or treading on him ; in an instant alter, his countenance is composed to the religious gloom,...there is such an absurd mixture of the serious and comic, that were we convened for any other purpose than that of worshipping the God and Governor of... | |
 | Mrs. John Burnett Pratt - 1845 - 268 pages
...themselves from the crowd. One seems very devout and serious, and the next moment is scolding and cursing his neighbour for squeezing or treading on him ; in an instant after, all his countenance is composed to the religious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...themselves from the crowd : one seems very devout and serious, and the next moment is scolding and cursing his neighbour for squeezing or treading on him ; in an instant after, Ids countenance is composed to the religious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for liis... | |
 | Archibald R. Adamson - 1879 - 298 pages
...themselves from the crowd ; one seems very devout and serious, and the next moment is scolding or cursing his neighbour for squeezing or treading on him ; in...gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for his sins—in a word, there is such an absurd mixture of the serious and comic that were we convened for... | |
 | 1889 - 540 pages
...neighbor for squeezing or treading on him ; in an instant afterwards, his countenance is composed to religious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and...there is such an absurd mixture of the serious and comic, that were we convened for any other purpose than that of worshiping the God and Governor of... | |
 | Sir William Alexander Craigie - 1896 - 244 pages
...the pamphlet are — " One seems very devout and serious, and the next moment is scolding and cursing his neighbour for squeezing or treading on him ; in...he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for his sins." t The stanza, slightly modified, goes back to the sixteenthcentury models of Christ's Kirk on the Green... | |
 | Henry Grey Graham - 1899 - 298 pages
...neighbour for squeezing or treading on him; in one instant after his countenance is composing to serious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for...absurd mixture of the serious and the comic, that were we convened for any other purpose than that of worshipping the God and governor of nature the scene... | |
 | Otto Ritter - 1901 - 282 pages
...courtship . . . one seems very devout and serious, and the next moment is scolding and cursing bis neighbour for squeezing or treading on him; in an...he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for his sins.' Ganz dieselben Einzelzüge begegnen uns in den Strophen X, XX, XXII ') Vgl. S. 79 f. — Die von Burns... | |
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... neighbour for squeezing or treading on him ; in an instant after, his countenance is composed to the religious gloom, and he is groaning, sighing, and weeping for his sins... 
