 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 sidor
...grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place j ' , , Truth from his lips prevail'd with double swayV . And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray-. ". ' .' The service past, around the pious man, , .... ', '.. i .With ready zeal each honest rustic rau ; Even children follow'd with endearing wile,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 sidor
...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...warmth exprest, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares distrest: To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were giv'n, But all his serious thoughts had... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 sidor
...And fools, who came to scoff, remain' d to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Ev'n children follow'd...warmth exprest, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares distrest ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs -were giv'n, But all his serious thoughts... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 sidor
...venerable place ; Truth from his lips 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 ran •, Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 sidor
...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...And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form. Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 sidor
...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 steady zeal, each honest rustic ran : E'en children folloVd, with... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 sidor
...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 steady zeal, each honest rustic ran : E'en children follow'd, with... | |
 | 1833 - 958 sidor
...of his hearers, the beautiful lines of Goldsmith are most apposite : " Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray." On the 1st of August, 1799, he entered into the marriage state with Miss Jane Edgcombe, daughter of... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 sidor
...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...pray. The service past, around the pious man With ready zeal each honest rustic ran : Ev'n children follow'd with endearing wile, Aud pluck'd his gown,... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 sidor
...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...pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready seal each honest rustic ran ; Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown,... | |
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To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. 
