 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious...steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children folio w'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. His ready smile... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevuil'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 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...ran; E'en children followed, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest, Their welfare... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 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 ,...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... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 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... | |
 | 1844 - 320 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, remain to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal each honest rustic... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - English poetry - 1844 - 274 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected kind, may justly be fixed at the eleventh century,...William the Conqueror ; and from that era the sun scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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... | |
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