 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
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 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 enrol. Then homeward... | |
 | Samuel Hanson Cox - 1853 - 348 pages
...pompous strain, the sacerdotal 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 On one occasion, at his request, I led the devotions of the family. On another, in 1846, myself and... | |
 | Scottish ballads and songs - 1854 - 606 pages
...of art, When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's every grace, except the heart! The Pow'r, incens'd, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain,...soul; And in his book of life the inmates poor enroll. Then homeward all take off their several way; The youngling cottagers retire to rest, The parent pair... | |
 | English poetry - 1854 - 608 pages
...art, When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's every grace, except the heart I The Pow'r, incens'd, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain,...; And in his book of life the inmates poor enroll. The parent pair their secret homage pay, And proffer up to Heav'n the warm request, That He, who stills... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's ev'iy grace, except the heart! The Pow'r, 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 ! XVIII. Then... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 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... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 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... | |
 | Henry Giles - Literature - 1854 - 372 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. And how exalted... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 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 enrol. Then homeward... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 254 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 ;... | |
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