 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
 | William Chambers - 1851 - 200 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 ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children followed... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 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...; And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service post, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran; Even children followed... | |
 | John Watson Adams, Joel Parker - 1851 - 378 pàgines
...than by applying to the subject of it the beautiful description in Goldsmith's Deserted Village : " ' 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 ; E'en children followed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pàgines
...raise, And his lost faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, Hi- s in the troubled sky full oft prevails ; Oft deemed...gales. ____ ..___=_" J While young Arion deep«, before The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children followed... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - 1851 - 204 pàgines
...INTRANSITIVE (m6)EXAMPLES. " Imagination fondly stops to trace T/te parlor splendors of that festive place." " Truth from his lips prevailed with double...sway, And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray." __^ Let Sentences be made, containing Transitive and Intransitive Adverbial Phrases. ADVERBIAL SENTENCES... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pàgines
...Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, 175 And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, • His...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. 180 The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal each honest rustic ran : Even children... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1852 - 388 pàgines
...hour. But in bis duty prompt at every call-, He watched and wept, he felt and prayed for all. Troth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray ; Aud as n bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new fledged offspring to the skies : He tried... | |
 | Alice Cary - 1852 - 320 pàgines
...announcement of a sermon the next day, were received with perfect and undisscmbled indifference. CHAPTER XVII. AT church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorned the venerable place. DESKHTKD VILLAGE. Oh night, And storm, and darkness ! ye are wondrous strong. CHILD E HAROLD, THE Sabbath... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 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 followed,... | |
 | Herbert Byng Hall - 1853 - 322 pàgines
...Walking through those pageant bands towards the scene of merrymaking might also be met him who — At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double away, And fools who came to scoff, went home to pray. Indeed few were those failed to join the feast... | |
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