 | 1835 - 496 sidor
...unexceptive; and it will be found that all sentences of like import must be read in a similar manner. "E'en children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile." Here we must have a falling inflection on the word children, if we would bring out the sense ; and... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1835 - 546 sidor
...man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran; E'en children follow'd with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile : His ready smile a parent's warmth expressed ; Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distress'd : To them his heart, his love, his... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 sidor
...His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fd«ls, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. , The service...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 sidor
...venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, reinain'd smith E'en children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. His... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1838 - 808 sidor
...with mock 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...his gown, to share the good man's smile, His ready Hmilc a parent's warmth exprest, Their welfare pleas'd him and their cares distrest : To them his heart,... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 sidor
...man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile. His ready smile a parent's warmth expressed, Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed ; To them his heart, his love, his... | |
 | James Wilson - 1838 - 372 sidor
...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."... | |
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To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. 
