 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 sider
...last falt'ring accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway. And fools who came to scoff, rpumin'd to pray. The service past; around the pious man, " ilh ready zeal each honest rustic ran ;... | |
 | Education, George Nicholson - 1805 - 276 sider
...soul; comfort comes down the trembling wretch to raise, and his last falt'ring accents whisper praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, his looks adorn the venerable place ; truth from his lips prevails with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remain to pray. The service past, around the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 sider
...last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service post, around the pious man, With steady zeal each honest rustic ran: Even children followed,... | |
 | Aaron Crossley Hobart Seymour - 1820 - 326 sider
...the censciences of his hearers; he had arrows in his quiver, that himself only knew how to sharpen. " Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway; And fools, who came to mock remained to pray." The Character of Barnabas may, with great propriety, be applied to him; " He... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 sider
...last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran •, Even children... | |
 | 1824 - 444 sider
...AVE-MARIA-LANE. 1822. VISIT TO THE RECTORY. « At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, reraaiu'd to pray." GOLDSMITH. WE took tea in a moss house which the venerable rector had constructed,... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - 338 sider
...with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. GOLDSMITH. I HAVE alluded to the salutary effects of Dr. Malcom's preaching on my mind, when sinking... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - 346 sider
...with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. GOLDSMITH. I HAVE alluded to the salutary effects of Dr. Malcom's preaching on my mind, when sinking... | |
 | George Wilkins - 1826 - 462 sider
...good man was seen actually to exist. " At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray." There was scarcely one in the town that had not applied to him for advice. If any embarked in trade... | |
 | George Wilkins - 1826 - 466 sider
...good man was seen actually to exist. " At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray." There was scarcely one in the Wwn that had not applied to him for advice. If any embarked in trade... | |
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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. 
