 | Christian biography - 1835 - 434 pages
...respect. His cheerful countenance and pleasing manner impressed them with an earnest desire to hear him." For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. The zeal of Swartz was untinctured by fanaticism, and undebased by extravagance, eccentricity, intolerance,... | |
 | 1838 - 1104 pages
...abstinence. Yet had his aspect nothing of severe, But such a face as promis'd him sincere. Nothing reserv'd or sullen was to see, But sweet regards, and pleasing...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd, Tho' harsh the precept, yet the preacher chariu'd ; For, letting down the golden chain from high, He... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 pages
...rhetoric." "His eyes diffused a venerable grace, And charity itself was in his face. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see ; But sweet regards, and pleasing...action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was armed ; Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed. For letting down the golden chain from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...more inspired, more enraptured, more sublime, than the poet ; and that, in his ordinary conversation, -—letting down the golden chain from high He drew his audience upward to the sky. Notwithstanding Young had said, in his * Conjectures on Original Composition," that "* bl&uK verse... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 306 pages
...abstinence : Yet had his aspect nothing of severe, But such a face as promised him sincere. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see; But sweet regards, and pleasing...tongue was arm'd; Though harsh the precept, yet the people charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky;... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 304 pages
...abstinence : Yet had his aspect nothing of severe, But such a face as promised him sincere. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see ; But sweet regards, and pleasing...tongue was arm'd; Though harsh the precept, yet the people charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky;... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...abstinence. Yet, had his aspect nothing of severe, But such a face as promised him sincere. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see : But sweet regards, and pleasing...action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was armed ; Though harsh the precept, yet the people charmed, For, letting down the golden chain from high,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...abstinence. Yet had his aspect nothing of severe, But such a face as promised him sincere ; Nothing reserved or sullen was to see, But sweet regards, and pleasing...sanctity ; Mild was his accent, and his action free. 3. With eloquence innate his tongue was armed, Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed.... | |
 | William Gresley - Preaching - 1840 - 414 pages
...hatred of sin. Let me conclude with an extract from Dryden's well-known " Character of a good Parson." " With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd ; Though...from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. 1 Philipp. iii. 18, 19. 2 2 Cor. vi. 1. <> Ezek. xxxiii. 11. " He bore his great commission in his... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 pages
.... - , i "His eyes diffused a venerable grace, And charity itself was in his face. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see ; But sweet regards, and pleasing...action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was armed ; Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed. For letting down the golden chain from... | |
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Nothing reserved or sullen was to see; But sweet regards, and pleasing sanctity: Mild was his accent, and his action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd; Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. For letting down the golden chain... 
