 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even es representative of an English people, kept up for the purpose of exacting impositions wi ; His ready smile a parent's warmth expressed, Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...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,...wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's omit; His ready smile a parent's warmth expressed; Their welfare plensed him, and their cares t'iftrewd;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double swsy, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. His ready smile... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Ev'n children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile. His ready smile a parent's warmth expressed, Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...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...And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile. His ready smile a parent's warmth- expressed ; Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed.... | |
 | 1852 - 788 pages
...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 ran I Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile ;... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 430 pages
...Goldsmith's poem those beautiful descriptions of rustic life and of its Christian minister which follow : — "The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children followed with endearing smile, And plucked liis gown to share the good loan'i •mile,"... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile ; His ready smile a parent's warmth expressed ; Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed... | |
 | John Stoughton - Puritans - 1848 - 356 pages
...round them as they left the church that afternoon, to return for the last time to the parsonage — "The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran: Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile ; His... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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 steady zeal, each honest rustic ran : Ev'n children follow'd, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man s smile.... | |
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E'en children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile. 
