 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 340 pages
...sanctity, Mild was his accent, and his action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd, Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd ; For,...down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upwards to the sky. He taught the Gospel rather than the law, And forc'd himself to drive, but lov'd... | |
 | Maria [collections] Edgeworth - 1825 - 344 pages
...sanctity, Mild was his accent, and his action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd, Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd ; For,...down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upwards to the sky. He taught the Gospel rather than the law, And forc'd himself to drive, but lov'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...character still more ins more enraptured, more sublime, than the poet; and-, in his ordinary conversation, Letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. Notwithstanding Young had said, in his Conjecture original Composition, that " blank verse is verse... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...more inspired, more enraptured, more sublime, than the poet ; and that, in his ordinary conversation, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. Notwithstanding Young had said, in hia " Conjectures on original Composition," that "Wank verse is... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...action free ; With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd; Though harsh the precept, yet the people charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky ; And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears (A music more melodious than the spheres) : For David... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...free ; With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd ; Though harsh the precept, yet the people charm 'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky ; And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears (A music more melodious than the spheres) : For David... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd ; Though harsh the precept, yet the people charm'd ; For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky : And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears (A music more melodious than the spheres) : For David... | |
 | Mary Jane Mackenzie - English fiction - 1829 - 226 pages
...dwell : He taught the Gospel rather than the Law, And forced himself to drive, but loved to draw : For, letting down the golden chain from high, . He drew his audience upward to the sky; Lightnings and thunder (heaven's artillery). As harbingers, before the Almighty fly — These hut proclaim... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd, Though harsh the precept, yet the preache-, charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky : And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears, (A music more melodious than the spheres:) For David... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 338 pages
...: is Mild was his accent, and his action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd ; Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. For letting...from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky : 20 And oft, with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears : (A music more melodious than the spheres.) For... | |
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