 | Solomon Southwick - 1834 - 336 σελίδες
...Goldsmith's allusion to the preaching of a country curate, would apply with ten-fola force to him. " Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, "And fools, who came to laugh, remained to pray!" Let, then, every American Clergyman look steadily to the gospel- for his... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 292 σελίδες
...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 - 1835 - 302 σελίδες
...venerable place ; Truth ftom 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 ,... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1835 - 546 σελίδες
...brow 1 Recollect the A& scription of the parish priest in that beautiful poem of Goldsmith. — " ' At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran; E'en children follow'd with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile : His... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 278 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | James Sigston - 1836 - 358 σελίδες
...any one else, ventured to make the least unfavorable allusion to this very singular dis course ; thus Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. " Mr. Bramwell at all times showed himself greatly attached to the Methodist discipline. Every breach... | |
 | James Sigston - 1836 - 354 σελίδες
...any one else, ventured to make the least unfavorable allusion to this very singular dis course; thus Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. " Mr. Bramwell at all times showed himself fteatly attached to the Methodist discipline, very breach... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - 1837 - 264 σελίδες
...Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. 7. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...pray. The service past, around the pious man, With eager zeal each honest rustic ran ; Even children followed, with endearing w: », And plucked his gown,... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1837 - 500 σελίδες
...the first evening when Miss FitzPatrick became conscious that she had lost him for ever. CHAPTER XXI. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place : Truth from hid lips prevall'd with double sway, And foob, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. GoLOunrx. "No muffins... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 564 σελίδες
...any. In the character of the Village Preacher there are the lines — " Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray :" which bear some resemblance in expression though not in thought, to a passage in the Britannia Rediviva... | |
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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. 
