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" One went to brag, th' other to pray ; One stands up close and treads on high, Where th' other dares not lend his eye. One nearer to God's altar trod, The other to the altar's God. "
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper - Page 557
by Alexander Chalmers - 1810
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Sermons and Addresses Delivered in America

Frederic William Farrar - 1886 - 392 pages
...publican ; — which did Christ rebuke ? " Two went to pray — or, rather say, One went to brag, the other to pray ; One stands up close, and treads on high, Where the other dares not send his eye. One nearer to the altar trod — The other to the altar's God." Whom...
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The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 4

1886 - 562 pages
...skies may bloom. HORACE SMITH. IN THE TEMPLE. TWO went to pray ? Oh, rather say One went to brag, the other to pray. One stands up close and treads on high, Where the other dares not lend his eye. One nearer to God's altar trod, The other to the altar's God. RICHAKD...
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Poems of Richard Crashaw

Richard Crashaw - 1887 - 116 pages
...young Love's minority ! DIVINE EPIGRAMS. XVI. TWO WENT UP INTO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY (Luke xviii. IO). Two went to pray! O, rather say, One went to brag,...pray. One stands up close, and treads on high, Where th1 other dares not send his eye. One nearer to God's altar trod ; The other to the altar's God. XVII....
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The City of Sarras

Una Taylor - 1887 - 268 pages
...half comprehending his drift, absorbed in the train of his own thoughts. CHAPTER XIV. QUEEN NIGHT. " One nearer to God's altar trod, The other to the altar's God. " '"PHE chapel was at length empty, save where 1 at the far end, one black-veiled woman — a widow,...
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The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, Volume 1

1889 - 532 pages
...His better Epitaph shall be, His life still kept alive in thee. TWO WENT UP INTO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY. Two went to pray! O, rather say, One went to brag,...close, and treads on high, Where th' other dares not send his eye. One nearer to God's altar trod; The other to the altar's God. — Di; ine Epigrams. CHRIST....
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The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, Volume 1

Charles Wells Moulton - 1889 - 536 pages
...His better Epitaph shall be, His life still kept alive in thee. TWO WENT UP INTO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY. Two went to pray! O, rather say, One went to brag,...close, and treads on high, Where th' other dares not send his eye. One nearer to God's altar trod; The other to the altar's God. — Divine Epigrams. CHRIST....
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The Day's Message

Susan Coolidge - 1890 - 382 pages
...us together with Christ. — EPH. ii. 4, 5. Two went to pray ? Oh, rather say, One went to brag, the other to pray ; One stands up close and treads on high, Where the other dares not lend his eye ; One nearer to God's altar trod, The other to the altar's God. RICHARD...
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The Gospel According to St. Luke, with Maps, Notes and Introduction

Frederic William Farrar - 1891 - 424 pages
...Abp Trench quotes Crashaw's striking epigram : "Two went to pray: or rather say One went to brag, the other to pray; One stands up close, and treads on high, Where th' other dares not send his eye. One nearer to the altar trod, The other to the altar's God." every one that exalteth...
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Religious Thought in Old English Verse

Charles John Abbey - 1892 - 460 pages
...to brag, th' other to pray : One stands up close and treads on high, Where th' other does not send his eye ; One nearer to God's altar trod ; The other to the altar's God. John, one of Francis Quarles's eighteen children was, like his father, a writer of sacred verse (1624-65)....
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The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three ..., Volume 4

Henry Coppée - 1894 - 544 pages
...skies may bloom. HOEACE SMITH. IN THE TEMPLE. TWO went to pray ? Oh, rather say One went to brag, the other to pray. One stands up close and treads on high, Where the other dares not lend his eye. One nearer to God's altar trod, The other to the altar's God. RICHARD...
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