 | 1809 - 402 pages
...venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with doublesway, And fools, who came to scoff', remain' d to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal each honest rustic ran ; ^ JVn children follow'd with endearing wile, Aud pluck'd his gown to share the good man's smile.... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 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 ready zeal, each honest rustic ran : Ev'u children fouWd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. His... | |
 | Clergy - 1811 - 394 pages
...even .with cjnldren, so that 1 believe no child was e\ei in Ills company but loved him : and when. " The service past, around the pious man., With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; * Mr. Winter was never tiresome in domestic devotion.—- lie often mentioned that Mr. Whiteneld... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 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 ready zeal each honest rustic ran ; Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'dhis gown, to share the good man's smile; His... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 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 ready zeal, each honest fustic ran ; Ev'n children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown to share the good man's... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1815 - 624 pages
...parish become a town, and surviving that era fourteen years, died, Nov. 4, 1804, in his 84th year. " At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place." Mr. Rowland's wife was a daughter of the Rev. Mr. Lewis, of Pembroke. Four sons and three daughters... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 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...ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to stare the good man's smile. His ready smile... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...soul— Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service post, around the pious man, With steady zeal each honest rustic ran: Even children followed, with endearing... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 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, aroun,d the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd .his gown, to share the good man's smile.... | |
 | Aaron Crossley Hobart Seymour - 1820 - 326 pages
...the censciences of his hearers; he had arrows in his quiver, that himself only knew how to sharpen. " Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway; And fools, who came to mock remained to pray." The Character of Barnabas may, with great propriety, be applied to him; " He... | |
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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. 
