 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. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic...  The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ... - Page 2001794Full 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1771 - 590 pages
...lips prevailed with double fway, And fools, who came to feoff, remained to pray; The fervice paft, around the pious man, With fteady zeal each honeft...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
...to feoff, remained to pray. The The fervice paft, around th6 pious man, With fteady zeal each hontft ruftic ran ; Even children followed with endearing...his gown, to fhare the good man's fmile. His ready (mile a parent's warmth expreft, Their welfare pleafed him, and their cares diftreft ; To them his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 204 pages
...man, With ready zeal, each honeft ruftic ran ; Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to fhare the good man's fmile. His ready fmile a parent's warmth expreft, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares diftrefl; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...mart, With ready zeal, each honelt ruftic 'rah; Even children folldw'd with endearing w!l?, And pluck'd his gown, to fhare the good man's fmile. His ready fmile a parent's warmth expreft, Their welfare pleSsM him, alid their cares diftreft; To them his heart, his love, his griefs wete given ; But all... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...man, With ready zeal each honeft ruftic ran ; E'en children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to fhare the good man's fmile His ready fmile a parent's warmth expreft, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares diftrcft ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 492 pages
...With fteady zeal the honeft rufticks ran ; Ev'n children follow'd with endearing wife, And pluck'd his gown to fhare the good man's fmile : His ready fmile a parent's warmth exprefs'd, Their welfare pleas 'd him, and their cares diftrefs'd ; To them his heart, his love, his... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1789 - 486 pages
...And fools, who came to feoff, remained to pray. The fervice part, around the pious man, With ready zeal each honeft ruftic ran ; Even children followed...ready fmile a parent's warmth expreft, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares diftreft; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1789 - 484 pages
...And fools, who came to 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pages
...lips prevail'd with double fway, And fools, who came to feoff, remain'd to pray. The fervice paft, around the pious man, With fteady zeal, each honeft ruftic ran ; Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to fhare the good man's fmile. VOL.I. F His His... | |
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