 | 1885
...up childhood to memory, as in those lines, — " The playful children just let loose from school," " E'en children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man'» smile," — , and in the quaint picture of the village school. It is in the Vicar of Wakefield,... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1909
...venerable place. . . . The service past, around the pious man With steady zeal each honest rustic ran, Even children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile." I recall a picture in the front of an old prayer book of the days when they were commonly adorned with... | |
 | 1850
...his brother, the " Village Preacher," whom, it is touchingly said in " The Deserted Village," " Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile." The same exquisite tenderness and depth of feeling, not compass of thought, is seen throughout all... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1909
...venerable place. . . . The service past, around the pious man With steady zeal each honest rustic ran, Even children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile." I recall a picture in the front of an old prayer book of the days when they were commonly adorned with... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 385 páginas
...With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran; Even children follow'd, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile: His ready smile a parent's warmth express'd, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares distress'd; To them his heart, his love, his... | |
 | Charles R. Henery - 1995 - 149 páginas
...man With steady zeal each honest rustic ran; Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown to share the good man's smile. His ready smile a parent's warmth express'd, Their welfare pleas'd him and their cares distress'd; To them his heart, his loves, his... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - 283 páginas
...man, With steady zeal each honest rustic ran; E'en children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown to share the good man's smile. His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest, Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distrest; To them his heart, his love, his griefs... | |
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To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm... 
