 | 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... | |
 | 1832 - 564 pages
...the while. " A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks. Continual comforts in a face. The lineaments of gospel books. I trow...cannot lie Whose thoughts are legible in the eye." What might not be expected from the powers of one who could thus portray a human creature when devoted... | |
 | 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...face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. Above all others this is he, Which erst... | |
 | 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... | |
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When he descended down the mount, 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 Paradise the while. A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance... 
