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 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; His loo Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And...pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children follow'd, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...contentedness, which already he had celebrated, in prose hardly less beautiful, by the dedication to the f -TT Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And...remain'd to pray. The service past, around the pious mail, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children follow'd, with endearing wile, And pluck'd... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...the venerable place ; 1767 TO 1774.] 473 Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And foolsj who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children follow'd, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And...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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pages
...he sought to humble himself at the shrine of excellence which he had not been able to practise : " At church with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children followed, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace,...fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. The service pass'd, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children follow'd, with... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace,...fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. The service pass'd, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children follow'd, with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 402 pages
...with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevoil'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd...pray. — The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children follow'd, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...raise, And his last fault'ring accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, Jis looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his...pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal each honest rustic ran ; Ev'n children follow'd, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown,... | |
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