 | United States. Congress - United States - 1833 - 684 pages
...him sitting " Bcsi'le ihe bed where parting life was I ihl, With sorrow, guht, anil fear, by turn» dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control,...Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his lasi filtering accents whiaperM praise." Soch a man partakes of that divine nature, that came... | |
 | African Americans - 1834 - 472 pages
...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 - 328 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 - 292 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 - 302 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 - 278 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 - 264 pages
...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 - 1837 - 472 pages
...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 - 342 pages
...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 - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 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... | |
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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. 
