 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...venerable place ; Truth from 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 ; E'en children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile:... | |
 | Thomas E. Gill - 1845 - 352 pages
...supply the place of all the rest, — that eloquence which goes directly to the heart. "Truth from her lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray." In a word she was the honoured instrument of doing much good, and the fruit of her labours are now... | |
 | Rural churches - 1846 - 264 pages
...LIBRARY AH A ..BARM BffiOLOGKALUBRkRY . A. OLD WHITE MEETINGHOUSE; REMINISCENCES COUNTRY CONGREGATION. " At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray." GOLDSMITH. SECOND EDITION. NEW YORK: ROBERT CARTER, 58 CANAL STREET, AND PITTSBURG, 56 MARKET STREET.... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Country life - 1846 - 256 pages
...venerable place ; Truth from 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 ; Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile ; His ready smile... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 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...pious man, With ready zeal each honest rustic ran; E'en children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile. His... | |
 | 1852 - 788 pages
...nor wish'd to change, his place. ***** At Church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed...pray. The service past, around the pious man, "With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran I Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown,... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 430 pages
...of The Deserted Village into the region of the sister art, by Mr. Rankley. " At clmrch, »ithraeek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable...And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray." The fools here, are those who naturally would be wisest in their own conceit, the young and fashionable.... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...venerable place ; Truth from 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 ; E'en children follow' d, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.... | |
 | Pictor (pseud.) - 1848 - 118 pages
...he might have the privilege of witnessing a living instance of Goldsmith's animated description — "At Church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools that came to scoff remained to pray." MR. B. is happy in the possession of "the victory that overcometh... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. 35 At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, 40 With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked... | |
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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. 
