 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.  Chambers's poetical reader - Page 105by Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1770 - 604 pages
...fcofF, remained to pray, The fervice paft, around the pious man, With ready zeal each honeft rullic ran ; Even children follo'wed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to lhare the good man's fmile. His ready fmjle a parent's warmth expreft, Their welfare pleas'd him, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1770 - 44 pages
...THE DESERTED VILLAGE. n The fervice paft, around the pious man, With ready zeal each honeft ruftic ran; Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to fhare the good man's fmile. His ready fmile a parent's warmth expreft, Their welfare pleafed him, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1771 - 590 pages
...feoff, remained to pray; The fervice paft, around the pious man, With fteady zeal each honeft ruftic ran ; Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to mare the good man's fmile* His ready fmile a parent's warmth expreft, Their welfare pleafed him, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 pages
...feoff, remained to pray. The The fervice paft, around th6 pious man, With fteady zeal each hontft ruftic ran ; Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to fhare the good man's fmile. His ready (mile a parent's warmth expreft, Their welfare pleafed him, and... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1789 - 484 pages
...feoff, remained to pray, The fervice part, around the pious man, With ready zeal each honeft ruftic ran; Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown , to f hare the good man's fmile. His ready fmile a parent's warmth cxpreft, Their welfare' pleas' d him,... | |
 | History - 1794 - 574 pages
...feoff, remained to pray. The fervice pad, around the pious man, With fteady zeal each honeft ruftic ran ; Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to fhare the good man's fmile, His ready fmile a parent's warmth expreft, Their welfare pleafed him, and... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1800 - 284 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 ready zeal, each honest rustic ran : « E'en chidren follow'd with endearing while , .< And pluk'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.... | |
 | Jacques Delille - French literature - 1800 - 286 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 ready zeal , each honest rustic ran : <s E'en chidren follow'd with endearing wile, « And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile»... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 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 ; Ev'n children fbllow'd with endearing wile, And [Uuck/d bisgowriyto share the gOod man's stnile.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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 ;... | |
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