 | Missions - 1851 - 772 pages
...as1 to make that true of him, which the old elegy says of one of England's finest worthies : — " A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, Tli o lineaments of Gospel- books ; For sure that count'nance cannot lie, Where thoughts are written... | |
 | 1825 - 364 pages
...His personage seem'd most divine ; A thousand graces one might count Upon his love chearful eine : To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in...grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comforts in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books : I trow, that count'nance cannot lie, Whose thoughts... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...most divine, A thousand graces one might count, Upon his lovely cheerfull eine ; To heare him speake and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while. A sweet attractive kinde of grace, A full assurance given by lookes, Contiuuall comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospell... | |
 | Books - 1825 - 368 pages
...His personage seem'd most divine ; A thousand graces one might count Upon his love chearful eine : To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in...grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comforts in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books : I trow, that count'nance cannot lie, Whose thoughts... | |
 | Books - 1825 - 368 pages
...His personage seem'd most divine ; A thousand graces one might count Upon his love chearful eine : To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in...grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comforts in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books : I trow, that count'nance cannot lie, Whose thoughts... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1825 - 450 pages
...divine, A thousand graces one might count Upon his-lovely cheerfull eine ; 100 To heare him speake and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while. A sweet attractive kinde of grace, A full assurance given by lookes, • , Continuall, comfort in a face, 1 05 The lineaments... | |
 | 1832 - 562 pages
...our religion, in the exquisite verses in which he enshrined the memory of Sir Philip Sidney : — " To hear him speak and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise...grace, A full assurance given by looks. Continual comforts in a face. The lineaments of gospel books. I trow that countenance cannot lie Whose thoughts... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Decision making - 1833 - 308 pages
...His personage seemed most divine : A thousand graces one might count Upon his lovely chearful eyne. To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in...thoughts are legible in the eye. Above all others this is he, Which erst approved in his song, That love and honour might agree, And that pure love will do no... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 478 pages
...countenance is known from his portrait * . t < which Spenser's lines on Sir Philip Sidney, may b applied. A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comforts in a face, The lineaments of Gospel-books. His manners corresponded with the sweetness of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...His personage seemed most divine : A thousand graces one might count Upon his lovely cheerful eyne. To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in...cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. Miovr aH others this is he, Which erst approved in his song, That love and honour might agree, And... | |
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To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while. A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts... 
