| Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 psl.
...such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compar'd with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp...When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart ! The Po&'r, incens'd, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the... | |
| 1826 - 602 psl.
...that H — me was certainly a very good man, and had no fault but that of not being fat. DEVOTION. How poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method,...men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grave, except the heart !" — BURNS. ON the breath of evening comes the hymn, The hymn of the vesper... | |
| Hew Ainslie, Robert Burns - 1822 - 302 psl.
...Priest-like father read the sacred page", must have, with the immortal bard exclaimed— ' Compar'd witk this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of...congregations wide, Devotion's every grace, except the heart!' Pompous display, and refined composition, may assist in keeping us awake in our Sunday seats ; the... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 274 psl.
...such society, yet still more dear; [sphere. While circling time moves round in an eternal Compar'd with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp...When men display to congregations wide Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart! The Pojo'r, incens'd, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 psl.
...society yet still more dear ; [sphere. While circling time moves round in an eternal XVII. Compar'd with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp...When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart ' The Pow'r, incens'd, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the... | |
| 1822 - 500 psl.
...COMMISSIONS BIST. No- 12.] TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1823, [Vol. I. MOMENTS OF MELANCHOLY. " How poor religious pride , In all the pomp of method, and of art, When...display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, ercept the heart ! The Power incensed the pageant will desertt The pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole... | |
| Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 psl.
...society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. 'XvII. Compar'd with this, how poor Religion's pride In all the pomp...wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart! The Pow'r, incens'd, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole ; But haply, in... | |
| Saturday night - 1824 - 968 psl.
...When men display to congregations Bl Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart! The Poic'r, incens'd, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the sacerdotal...But haply, in some cottage far apart, May hear, well pleas'd, the language of the goal ; And in his hunk of id'c the inmates poor enrol. Then homeward all... | |
| 1824 - 486 psl.
...noble Elgin beets the heav'nward flame, Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart! The Potc'r, incens'd, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the sacerdotal...But haply, in some cottage far apart, May hear, well pleas'd, the language of the soul ; And in his book of life the inmates poor enrol. Then homeward all... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 464 psl.
...praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In...; But haply, in some cottage far apart, May hear, well-pleased, the language of the. soul; And in his Book of Life the inmates poor enrol. i Pope's Windsor... | |
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