 Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace...  Poems - Page 190by Robert Burns - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - Poets, English - 1840 - 872 pages
...of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart ! The Pow'r, smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love...thee ; Had I not found the slightest prayer, That lip iar apart, [soul ; May hear, well pleas'd, the language of the And in His book of life the inmates... | |
 | 1841 - 306 pages
...congregations wide. Devotion's ev'rv grace, except theAeari.' The I'ow'r, inceas'd, the pageant wilt desert, The pompous strain-, the sacerdotal stole ;. But haply, in some cottage far apart, May hear, well nleas'd the language of the soul ; The Transformed i or, tht Goth's Triumph. 149 And in his book... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 pages
...of art, When men display to eongregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart. The power incens'd the pageant will desert, The pompous strain,...stole, 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 enroll. Burns has... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...display to congregations wide', Devotion's every grace' . . . except the hearf t That Power', incensed', the pageant will desert*, , The pompous strain', the...But', haply', in some cottage far apart', May hear', well pleased', the language of the sovf, And in his book of life the inmates poor' . . enrol'. Bliss... | |
 | Children's literature - 1856 - 1026 pages
...When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's every grace, except the heart! The Power, incensed, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the sacerdotal...stole; But haply, in some cottage far apart, May hear, well pleased, the language of the soul, And in His book of life the inmate poor enrol. WHEN I WAS A... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...art, When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's ev'ry grace except the heart ! The I'ou-'r, incens'd, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain,...; 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... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole ; 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. 7 Then homeward all take off their several way ; The youngling cottagers retire to rest : The... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 236 pages
...When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's every grace except the heart. The Pow'r, iucens'd, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the sacerdotal...stole; 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." "Let us join... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart ! The Puw'r incensed the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the sacerdotal...; But haply, in some cottage far apart, May hear, well-pleased, the language of the soul : And in his 600* of life the inmates poor enrol. XVIII. Then... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...When men display to congregations wide Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart! The Power, incensed, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the sacerdotal...; 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 enroll. Then homeward... | |
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