 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.  The Convert - Pàgina 355per George Wilkins - 1826 - 444 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1811 - 544 pàgines
...truly be said, that while dispensiug the bread of life, " At chuich, with meek and unaffected giace, His looks adorned the venerable place : Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway.1' In piety to his God — at once fervent and rational, equally removed from the extremes of... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1815 - 624 pàgines
...parish become a town, and surviving that era fourteen years, died, Nov. 4, 1804, in his 84th year. " At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place." Mr. Rowland's wife was a daughter of the Rev. Mr. Lewis, of Pembroke. Four sons and three daughters... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pàgines
...soul— Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service post, around the pious man, With steady zeal each honest rustic ran: Even children followed,... | |
 | Aaron Crossley Hobart Seymour - 1820 - 326 pàgines
...the censciences of his hearers; he had arrows in his quiver, that himself only knew how to sharpen. " Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway; And fools, who came to mock remained to pray." The Character of Barnabas may, with great propriety, be applied to him; " He... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pàgines
...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. 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 •, Even children... | |
 | 1824 - 444 pàgines
...AVE-MARIA-LANE. 1822. VISIT TO THE RECTORY. « At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, reraaiu'd to pray." GOLDSMITH. WE took tea in a moss house which the venerable rector had constructed,... | |
 | 1847 - 390 pàgines
...then broke out into laughter ; but when they went out, they seemed to have arrows in their hearts. " At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who cime to scoff remain'd to pray." I have seen him at the almshouses,... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - 346 pàgines
...with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. GOLDSMITH. I HAVE alluded to the salutary effects of Dr. Malcom's preaching on my mind, when sinking... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - 338 pàgines
...with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. GOLDSMITH. I HAVE alluded to the salutary effects of Dr. Malcom's preaching on my mind, when sinking... | |
 | George Wilkins - 1826 - 462 pàgines
...waters of regeneration. For correction, he had visited few ; in the hour of sickness, most ; and in the way of fellowship, all of them. Abroad his charity...scoff, remained to pray." There was scarcely one in the town that had not applied to him for advice. If any embarked in trade at home, or at a distance, it... | |
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