 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...remained to pray. The service post, 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 ready smile a parent's warmth expressed, Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed:... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...remained to pray. 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 ready smile a parent's warmth exprest ; Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distrest ; To... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last, faltering accents whispered praise. 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 Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 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 ; Hia ready smile a parent's warmth expressed, Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...remained to pray. The service past, around the pious mau, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en orious fault of angels and of £ode : Thence to their images on earth it flows, And in the His ready smile a parent's warmth expressed. Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed... | |
 | Robert Forby - English language - 1830 - 344 pages
...says that, " The service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal> each honest rustic ran ; E'en 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 care distressed :... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Conduct of life - 1831 - 788 pages
...service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children follow'd 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 distress'd... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, {ran ; With ready zeal, each honest rustic E'en children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile. His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest; Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed ;... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Children's literature - 1835 - 554 pages
...service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran ; E'en children follow'd 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 distress'd... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Confirmation - 1835 - 546 pages
...service past, around the pious man, With ready zeal, each honest rustic ran; E'en children follow'd 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 distress'd... | |
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To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the... 
