 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.  Miscellanies... - Page 188by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 592 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Edwin Hilary Skinner - Schleswig-Holstein War, 1848-1850 - 1865 - 288 pages
...damage, although an immense number of shells was thrown into them. CHAPTER XIV. A DANISH PARSONAGE. " The service past, around the pious man With steady...; E'en children followed with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown to share the good man's smile." GOLDSMITH. NOT a league from the bustle and din of... | |
 | Our life - 1865 - 234 pages
...wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth...prevailed with double sway ; And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - Children's poetry, English - 1865 - 604 pages
...wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth...prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man With ready zeal each honest rustic ran... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth...prevailed with double sway; And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Henry William Dulcken - English poetry - 1865 - 410 pages
...venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scon0, remain' d to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With...steady 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. His ready smile... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. 4. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth...prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 422 pages
...wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth...prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Authors, English - 1918 - 186 pages
...wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth...prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 pages
...wTetch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth...prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected And, pinched scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic... | |
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