 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...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 ready zeal, each honest fustic ran ; Ev'n children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown to share the good man's... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...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 ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to stare the good man's smile.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...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...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, with endearing... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. The service past, aroun,d the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd .his gown, to share the good man's smile.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...; 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 steady zeal, each honest rustic ran •, Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...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 ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Ev'n children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown to share the good man's smile. His... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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 ready zeal each honest rustic ran : Ev'n children follow'd with endearing wile, Aud pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile ;... | |
 | 1824 - 444 pages
...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,... | |
 | Christian literature, English - 1847 - 390 pages
...then broke out into laughter ; but when they went out, they seemed to have arrows in their hearts. " 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 cime to scoff remain'd to pray." I have seen him at the almshouses,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, wb.o came to scoff, remain'd to prsy. liquor fann'd; Some o'er her lap their careful plumes display'd, Trembling, and Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. His... | |
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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. 
