 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.  Studies from the English Poets - Page 497by George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 519 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1865 - 310 pages
...the skies He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. At Church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. His ready smile a parent's warmth expressed, Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed... | |
 | Words - 1866 - 368 pages
...control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At...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 followed,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1866 - 284 pages
...control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children followed,... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 pages
...fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last falteriug accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and...; And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran: Even children followed... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents v/hispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace,...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children followed,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. 4. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children followed... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, Aud his last faltering accents whispered praise. 4. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E 'en children followed,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. 4. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children followed,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. 4. At church, with meek and unaffected gra~ce, His looks...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E 'en children followed,... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1867 - 244 pages
...Far other .aims his heart had learned to prize — More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray. To relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings leaned to virtue's side — But in his... | |
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