...respect. His cheerful countenance and pleasing manner impressed them with an earnest desire to hear him." For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. The zeal of Swartz was untinctured by fanaticism, and undebased by extravagance, eccentricity, intolerance,...

...abstinence. Yet had his aspect nothing of severe, But such a face as promis'd him sincere. Nothing reserv'd or sullen was to see, But sweet regards, and pleasing...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd, Tho' harsh the precept, yet the preacher chariu'd ; For, letting down the golden chain from high, He...

...rhetoric." "His eyes diffused a venerable grace, And charity itself was in his face. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see ; But sweet regards, and pleasing...action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was armed ; Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed. For letting down the golden chain from...

...more inspired, more enraptured, more sublime, than the poet ; and that, in his ordinary conversation, -—letting down the golden chain from high He drew his audience upward to the sky. Notwithstanding Young had said, in his * Conjectures on Original Composition," that "* bl&uK verse...

...abstinence : Yet had his aspect nothing of severe, But such a face as promised him sincere. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see; But sweet regards, and pleasing...tongue was arm'd; Though harsh the precept, yet the people charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky;...

...abstinence : Yet had his aspect nothing of severe, But such a face as promised him sincere. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see ; But sweet regards, and pleasing...tongue was arm'd; Though harsh the precept, yet the people charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky;...

...abstinence. Yet, had his aspect nothing of severe, But such a face as promised him sincere. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see : But sweet regards, and pleasing...action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was armed ; Though harsh the precept, yet the people charmed, For, letting down the golden chain from high,...

...abstinence. Yet had his aspect nothing of severe, But such a face as promised him sincere ; Nothing reserved or sullen was to see, But sweet regards, and pleasing...sanctity ; Mild was his accent, and his action free. 3. With eloquence innate his tongue was armed, Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed....

...hatred of sin. Let me conclude with an extract from Dryden's well-known " Character of a good Parson." " With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd ; Though...from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. 1 Philipp. iii. 18, 19. 2 2 Cor. vi. 1. <> Ezek. xxxiii. 11. " He bore his great commission in his...

.... - , i "His eyes diffused a venerable grace, And charity itself was in his face. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see ; But sweet regards, and pleasing...action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was armed ; Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed. For letting down the golden chain from...