| Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 Seiten
...wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, 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, remain'd to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With... | |
| 1851 - 724 Seiten
...dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way * * « * t At church, with meek and nnnffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double And fools, who came to scoff, remained to ргз\ . The service pass'd, around the pious man. With... | |
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 Seiten
...shrine of excellence which he had not been able to practise : " At church 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, remain'd to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 Seiten
...wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, 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, remain'd to pray. The service pass'd, around the pious man, With... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 Seiten
...wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, 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, remain'd to pray. The service pass'd, around the pious man, With... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 Seiten
...wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, 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, remain'd to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With... | |
| Baker Peter Smith - 1852 - 132 Seiten
...incumbency becoming vacant, which happened in 1767. CHAPTER II. "At church, 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, remain'd to pray. " DK. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. WE now arrive at that... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 Seiten
...Andpassing rich with forty pounds ayear. Goldsmith, Des. V. 137. At chureh, 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, remain'd to pray. Ib. 177. He that negociates 'tween God and man,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 Seiten
...t left but little provision lor his hungry race wheu death * " At church, with meek ami unnffocted grace, His looks adorn'd the 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 steady... | |
| Albert Newton Raub - 1882 - 480 Seiten
...to rai*e, 175 And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unafl'ected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. 180 The service past, around the pious man, With... | |
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