 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
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...men display to congregations wide, Devotion's every 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 enrol. Then homeward... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 248 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." " Let us join in the worship of God " is a strong desire of nature, and a commanded duty ;... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 266 pages
...the meaning of devotion? It all be false and hollow, a mere semblance only, then indeed " The Pow'r incens'd, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole;" but if, even in the midst of "religion's pride," there be humble and contrite hearts—if a place be found... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...art, , When men display to congregations 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 enrol. Then homeward... | |
 | 1846 - 436 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...; 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... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's every grace except the heart; 3* 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 inmates poor enroll." These are... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...When men display to congregations wide Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart! The pow'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 book of life the inmates poor enrol. Then homeward... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 pages
...art, When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's ev'ry grace except the heart / The POUI'T, incens'd, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole ; But haply, m some cottage far apart, May hear, well pleas'd, the language of the soul ; And in bis hook of life... | |
 | Orphan Working School (London, England) - Orphanages - 1847 - 152 pages
...voices as he passed through their midst. " The Power incensed, the pageant may desert, The solemn pomp, the sacerdotal stole, But haply in some cottage far apart, May hear the honest language of the heart, And in his book of life the inmates poor enrol." While to all classes... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...art, When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's ev'ry grace except the heart ! The Pots' 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 -• >;i! ; And in his '*.../,• of life the inmates poor enrol.... | |
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