 To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid. And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion...  Poems, Plays and Essays - Стр. 92авторы: Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - Страниц: 530Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1833 - Страниц: 958
...of this memoir, and to many of his hearers, the beautiful lines of Goldsmith are most apposite : " Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray." On the 1st of August, 1799, he entered into the marriage state with Miss Jane Edgcombe, daughter of... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - Страниц: 412
...Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The rev'rend Champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish...down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last falt'ring accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - Страниц: 510
...and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pains, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood. At his control....faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church with mock and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - Страниц: 1062
...laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dimnay'd, The rev'rend champion stood. At his controul orn but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether fault'ring accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | 1824 - Страниц: 444
...PRINTED FOR FRANCIS WESTLEY, 10, STATIONERSCOURT, AND AVE-MARIA-LANE. 1822. VISIT TO THE RECTORY. « 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, reraaiu'd to pray." GOLDSMITH. WE took tea... | |
 | 1847 - Страниц: 390
...seemed to have arrows in their hearts. " 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 cime to scoff remain'd to pray." I have seen him at the almshouses, among the aged men and women, who... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - Страниц: 338
...his own history equally fortuitous, and perhaps as interestingly simultaneous. N°. III. PREACHING. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. GOLDSMITH. I HAVE alluded to the salutary effects of Dr. Malcom's preaching on my... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - Страниц: 346
...his own history equally fortuitous, and perhaps as interestingly simultaneous. N°. III. PREACHING. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks...prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. GOLDSMITH. I HAVE alluded to the salutary effects of Dr. Malcom's preaching on my... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - Страниц: 476
...and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood. At his control,...came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last falt'ring accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1838 - Страниц: 684
...sitting "Beside the bed where parting life wa« \M, With sorrow, guilt, ami feur, by turn« dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair...Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And bis last faltering accents whisper'd praise." Such a man partakes of that divine nature, that came... | |
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