 | John Milton - 1824 - 131 pages
...the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pains, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood. At his control. Despair...came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church with mock and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 822 pages
...laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dimnay'd, The rev'rend champion stood. At his controul orn but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether fault'ring accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825
...the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair...came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last falt'ring accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1838
...Behold him sitting "Beside the bed where parting life wa« \M, With sorrow, guilt, ami feur, by turn« dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control,...Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And bis last faltering accents whisper'd praise." Such a man partakes of that divine nature, that came... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 299 pages
...the bed, where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd^ The rev'rend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish...came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last falt'ring accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | Walker - 1825 - 382 pages
...warfare. " Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and fear, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood ; at his control, Despair and anguish fled the trembling soul ; Comfort came down, the drooping soul to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1826
...the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair...came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827
...the way. Beside the bed where "parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair...down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 346 pages
...the bed where parting life was laid, Ami sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay 'd, The rev'rend Champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish...down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last falt'ring accents wbisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn 'd the... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 276 pages
...dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The...down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last, faltering accents whispered praise. Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown,... | |
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The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. 
