...were the strength of the family feelings more evident than now. I ever believed, with the poet, that * To make a happy fireside clime For weans and wife, Is the true pathos and sublime Of human life.' Along with the wish to be able to help the helpless, strengthen the weak, and raise the fallen, had...

...with less travelling than in the Ellisland days, and did not require him as formerly to keep a horse. When the day's work was over, his small house in the...ties gathered round it, were not enough for him. At EUisland he had sung, — To make a happy fire-side clime, For weans and wife, Is the true pathos and...

...less travelling than in the Ellisland days, and did not require him, as formerly, to keep a horse. When the day's work was over, his small house in the...Vennel, and the domestic hearth with the family ties gathercd round it, were not enough for him. At Ellisland he had sung — " To make a happy fire-side...

...about eternity ; go and try to live a single happy and rational day ! A WORD FOR XANTIPPE. 1866. ' ' To make a happy fireside clime For weans and wife, Is the true pathos and sublime Of human life." — BURNS. FOR a couple of thousand years or so poor Xantippe has been infamous among men as the most...

...less travelling than in the Ellisland days, and did not require him, as formerly, to keep a horse. When the day's work was over, his small house in the...Vennel, and the domestic hearth with the family ties gathercd round it, were not enough for him.' At Ellisland he had sung — " To make a happy fire-side...

...duties of the Excise, for which he received seventy pounds a year. At Ellisland he had written : — "To make a happy fireside clime, For weans and wife, Is the true pathos and sublime Of human life." Unfortunately he did not live as wisely as he sang. His spirit became soured toward those more favored...

...with less travelling than in the Ellisland days, and did not require him as formerly to keep a horse. "When the day's work was over, his small house in...Ellisland he had sung, — To make a happy fire-side olime, For weans and wife, Is the true pathos and sublime Of human life. But it is one thing to sing...

...with less travelling than in the Ellisland days, and did not require him as formerly to keep a horse. When the day's work was over, his small house in the...Ellisland he had sung, — To make a happy fire-side olime, For weans and wife, I8 the true pathos and sublime Of human life. But it is one thing to sing...

...poetical Mecca" ; and to this Mecca may our children and grandchildren continue to come, remembering — " To make a happy fireside clime For weans and wife, Is the true pathos and sublime Of human life." THE AULD BRIG o' DOON. BURNS' MONUMENT, AYR. Starting from St. Enoch's station, Glasgow, by express...

...poetical Mecca"; and to this Mecca may our children and grandchildren continue to come, remembering — " To make a happy fireside clime For weans and wife, Is the true pathos and sublime Of human life." THE AULD BRIG o' DOON. ^^ BURNS' MONUMENT, AYR. Starting from St. Enoch's station, Glasgow, by express...