 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 ページ
...say that he has borrowed from any. In the character of the Village Preacher there are the lines — " Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray :" which bear some resemblance in expression though not in thought, to a passage in the Britannia Rediviva... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 564 ページ
...say that he has borbowed from any. In the character of the Village Preacher there are the lines — " Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray :" which bear some resemblance in expression though not in thought, to a passage in... | |
 | Church of England preacher - 1837 - 632 ページ
...forcibly of Goldsmith's description of the Village Clergyman ; especially of those two lines : — " At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place." It is true that this aged minister does not enter the pulpit with what the apostle calls, "the excellency... | |
 | 1838 - 808 ページ
...And who has not admired the moral beauty and pathos of the following strain ; 1 At church with mock and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable...pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran : Ev'n children follow'd, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile,... | |
 | 1840 - 420 ページ
...last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray." GEOROE HERBERT was born on the 3rd of April, 1593, in the castle of Montgomery, being a descendant... | |
 | James Wilson - 1838 - 372 ページ
...Church History, vol. 2nd.— The Library of Entertaining Knowledge, vol.. 1. THE BLIND CLERGYMAN. " The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile." "In my rambles... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1909 - 222 ページ
...good man. " At church, with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorned the venerable place. . . . The service past, around the pious man With steady zeal each honest rustic ran, Even children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile." I... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 ページ
...the indulgence of its own parsimony. — At church with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adom'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd...sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray . . . Poetry attains its full purpose, when it sets its subjects strongly and distinctly in our view.... | |
 | Charles R. Henery - 1995 - 176 ページ
...last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray. The service pass'd around the pious man With steady zeal each honest rustic ran;... | |
 | Margaret Mayo - 1996 - 164 ページ
...bequeaths to his proteges an energy and magnetism that generate unlimited power to sway and inspire. Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray, It is possible for the Leo born to attain to wonderful prestige in the theatrical... | |
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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. 
