 Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise And his last faltering...  Analytical [-sixth] Reader - Página 113por Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - 1868Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 páginas
...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last fullering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran; Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile; His... | |
 | John Watson Adams, Joel Parker - 1851 - 378 páginas
...than by applying to the subject of it the beautiful description in Goldsmith's Deserted Village : " ' At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 páginas
...raise, And his lost faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, Hi- ; Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile ;... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 páginas
...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service post, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran; Even children followed with endearing... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1909 - 222 páginas
...venerable place. . . . The service past, around the pious man With steady zeal each honest rustic ran, Even children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile." I recall a picture in the front of an old prayer book of the days when they were commonly adorned with... | |
 | 1850 - 44 páginas
...his brother, the " Village Preacher," whom, it is touchingly said in " The Deserted Village," " Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile." The same exquisite tenderness and depth of feeling, not compass of thought, is seen throughout all... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 páginas
...(1771-1845) English clergyman, writer The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Bible, Psalms Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1909 - 222 páginas
...venerable place. . . . The service past, around the pious man With steady zeal each honest rustic ran, Even children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile." I recall a picture in the front of an old prayer book of the days when they were commonly adorned with... | |
 | Charles R. Henery - 1995 - 176 páginas
...soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray. The service pass'd around... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...(1615-1691) British nonconformist cleric. "Love Breathing Thanks and Praise," Poetical Fragments (1 681 ). Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. "The Deserted Village," I. 1 79-1... | |
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