At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. Littell's Living Age - Página 5101892Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Joseph Holdich - 1842 - 488 páginas
...access to their hearts. Thus he gained the affection and confidence of all, young and old ; for • " Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile." But it was the lot of our subject to suffer something from the strife of tongues. The... | |
| Thomas Brothers - 1842 - 158 páginas
...could only be illustrated by a Goldsmith, whose country clergyman was, in all respects, his fellow : "At church with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place." If any of his flock were afflicted in body, mind, or estate, he hastened to console them. If there... | |
| 1843 - 184 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...pious man, With steady zeal each honest rustic ran ; E'en children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man'a smile.... | |
| William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 páginas
...soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal each honest rustic ran; Ev'n children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. consequently in disorders of every kind, may justly...beginning to re-ascend, threw out many gleams of ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown,... | |
| 1844 - 320 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...prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal each honest rustic ran ; E'en... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. <f P 볖 d + /c у_:Q U / s * Y O 0˛~s Z G c<0h /k ... q # Ӊ J g T !ؕ A u L 5 X4L h ?4] ?t scoft', remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic... | |
| John Seely Stone - 1844 - 636 páginas
...Goldsmith, in his portrait of ' the Village Pastor;' " " The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran; Even children followed,...endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile." " I am"—she continued, " like Moses, not ready of speech. I have a heart to feel, but... | |
| John Seely Stone - 1844 - 640 páginas
...portrait of ' the Village Pastor ;' " " The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, eacli honest rustic ran ; Even children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile." " I am" — she continued, " like Moses, not ready of speech. I have a heart iofeel,... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 páginas
...venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children follow'd, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile... | |
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