 | African Americans - 1834
...educated seventy-four youths for the ministry, a and thousands he performed the last ritus of friendship "Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow,...Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his hist faultering accents whispered praise. " The life of Dr. Balch was often chequered with... | |
 | M. Randall - Readers - 1834 - 308 pages
...preacher, is so well described by Goldsmith that I need no apology for quoting the following lines : Beside the bed, where parting life was laid, And sorrow,...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. THE LOTTERY TICKET. Dick Woodcock was the only child... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 276 pages
...fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last, faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and...prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff", returned to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran :... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 280 pages
...way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, • And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair...; 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... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 276 pages
...fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last, faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and...place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double swayj And fools, who came to scoff, returned to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - 1837
...skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. 6. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow,...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. 7. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837
...skies, He triell each art, reproved each dull delay, £ • Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair...soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last falt'ring accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838
...the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow,...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Poetry - 1839 - 156 pages
...the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay 'd, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, 9 His looks... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839
...the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay 'd, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, 9 His looks... | |
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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 accents whispered praise. 
