 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 páginas
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd ; Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky : Ami oft, with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears: (A music more melodious than the spheres.) For David... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 páginas
...sullen was to see ; But sweet regards, and pleasing sanctity ; Mild was his accent, and his action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was armed ; Though...from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. He bore his great commission in his look ; But sweetly tempered awe, and softened all he spoke. He... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 páginas
...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 his * Conjectures on Original Composition," that "* bl&uK verse... | |
 | 1838 - 1104 páginas
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd, Tho' harsh the precept, yet the preacher chariu'd ; For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upwards to the sky; And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears, A music more melodious than the... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1839 - 306 páginas
...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 left... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 páginas
...sullen was to see : But sweet regards, and pleasing sanctity : Mild was his accent, and his action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was armed ; Though harsh the precept, yet the people charmed, For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 páginas
...countenance and pleasing manner impressed them with an earnest desire to hear him. " For letting down his golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky." The zeal of Swartz was untinctured by fanaticism, and nndebazed by extravagance, eccentricity, intolerance,... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 páginas
...sullen was to see ; But sweet regards, and pleasing sanctity ; Mild was his accent, and his action free. With eloquence innate his tongue was armed ; Though...from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. He bore his great commission in his look; But sweetly tempered awe, and softened all he spoke. He preached... | |
 | William Gresley - 1840 - 414 páginas
..." With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd ; Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd : For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. 1 Philipp. iii. 18, 19. 2 2 Cor. vi. 1. <> Ezek. xxxiii. 11. " He bore his great commission in his... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1841 - 506 páginas
...drawen folk to heaven with faireness, By good ensarnple, was his business. Dryden says of his, — For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky ! The lofty idea here suggested of a figure standing in the clouds, and letting down " the golden chain"... | |
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Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed, For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky, And oft with holy hymns he charmed their ears (A music more melodious than the spheres). For David left him, when... 
