 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.  Littell's Living Age - Page 5101892Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 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 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...last falt'ring accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway. And fools who came to scoff, rpumin'd to pray. The service past; around the pious man, " ilh ready zeal each honest rustic ran ;... | |
 | 1811 - 544 pages
...truly be said, that while dispensiug the bread of life, " At chuich, with meek and unaffected giace, His looks adorned the venerable place : Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway.1' In piety to his God — at once fervent and rational, equally removed from the extremes of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 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 steady zeal, each honest rustic ran : Ev'n children follow'd, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...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...steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children follow'd, with endearing wilf, And pluck'd his gown to share the good man's smile. His ready smile... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...venerable pktce ; Truth from his lips prevaii'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to 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, to share the good man's smile.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 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 steady zeal, each honest rustic ran : Ev'n children follow'd, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 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 steady zeal, each honest rustic ran , K'en children followed with endearing And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. IDs ready... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. , The service p'ast, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustick ran ; E'en children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown to share the good man's... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 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... | |
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