 | Catherine Sinclair - 1837 - 500 pages
...the first evening when Miss FitzPatrick became conscious that she had lost him for ever. CHAPTER XXI. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place : Truth from hid lips prevall'd with double sway, And foob, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. GoLOunrx. "No muffins... | |
 | M F. Dickson - 1837 - 748 pages
...different little manoeuvres to attract his attention, I could not help recalling Goldsmith's lines, " E'en children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile." One pretty fair-haired little girl bounded towards him across the street, and catching hold... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...pious 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.... | |
 | 1840 - 420 pages
...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his 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, remain'd to pray." GEOROE HERBERT was born... | |
 | James Wilson - 1838 - 372 pages
...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 last summer," says the writer from whom this account is taken, " on the borders... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...Mayne to the Mem. of B. Jonson. v. Nithollt' Col. Poems, ip 256. 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 share the good man's smile.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pages
...venerable grace.' Dryden's gmd Parson, iii. 137. 10 Truth] And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pr.iy. 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 share the good man's smile.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...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, remained...pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children folio w'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 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 share the good man's smile.... | |
 | Joseph Holdich - 1842 - 488 pages
...to their hearts. Thus he gained the affection and confidence of all, young and old ; for • " Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile." But it was the lot of our subject to suffer something from the strife of tongues. The work... | |
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Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise And his last faltering... 
