 | James Sigston - 1836 - 354 pages
...any one else, ventured to make the least unfavorable allusion to this very singular dis course; thus Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. " Mr. Bramwell at all times showed himself fteatly attached to the Methodist discipline, very breach... | |
 | James Sigston - 1836 - 358 pages
...any one else, ventured to make the least unfavorable allusion to this very singular dis course ; thus Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. " Mr. Bramwell at all times showed himself greatly attached to the Methodist discipline. Every breach... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - 1837 - 264 pages
...Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. 7. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With eager zeal each honest rustic ran ; Even children followed,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1837 - 488 pages
...with meek and unaffected grace, I IK looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. t (GOLDSMITH. " No muffins—and cold rolls for breakfast!—that is a sure indication of its being... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 564 pages
...any. In the character of the Village Preacher there are the lines — " Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray :" which bear some resemblance in expression though not in thought, to a passage in the Britannia Rediviva... | |
 | 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...sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children followed... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children folio... | |
 | Thomas Brothers - 1842 - 158 pages
...could only be illustrated by a Goldsmith, whose country clergyman was, in all respects, his fellow : "At church with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place." If any of his flock were afflicted in body, mind, or estate, he hastened to console them. If there... | |
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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. 
