 | British poets - 1822 - 292 sider
...speeches would send up unheeded prayer, That scorn of life would be but wild despair ; A cymbal's sound were better than my voice ; My faith were form, my eloquence were noise. Charity ! decent, modest, easy, kind, Softens the high, and rears the abject mind ; Knows with... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 sider
...speeches would send up unheeded pray'r ; That scorn of life would be but wild despair ; A cymbal's sound were better than my voice ; My faith were form ; my eloquence were noise. Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind, Softens the high, and rears the abject mind ; Knows with... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 sider
...would send up unheeded pray'r* ; That seorn of life', would be but wild despair* : A cymbal's sound were better than my voice'; My "faith were form' ; my eloquence were noise*. 2 Charity', decent*, modest*, easy', kind*, Softens the high', and. rears the abject mind*... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 sider
...speeches would send up unheeded prayer, That scorn of life would be but wild despair; A cymbal's sound were better than my voice ; My faith were form, my eloquence were noise. Charity ! decent, modest, easy, kind, Softens the high, and rears the abject mind ; Knows, with... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1828 - 298 sider
...speeches would send up unheeded prayer, That scorn of life would be but wild despair; A cymbal's sound were better than my voice; My faith were form; my eloquence were noise; "Charity, decent,' modest, easy, kind, Softens the high, and rears the abject mind; Knows with... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 sider
...speeches would send up unheeded pray'r : That scorn of life would be but wild despair : A tymbal's sound were better than my voice : My faith were form : my eloquence were noise. Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind, Softens the high, and rears the abject mind : Knows with... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 sider
...speeches would send up unheeded prayer : The scorn of life would be but wild despair : A tymbal's sound were better than my voice. My faith were form, my eloquence were noise. Prior. TYMPAN, among printers, a double frame belonging to the press, covered with parchment,... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - 1835 - 302 sider
...speeches would send up unheeded pray'f ; That scorn of life would be but wild despair; A cymbal's sound were better than my voice ; My faith .were form ; my eloquence were noise. Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind, Softens the high, and rears the abject mind ; Knows with... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 sider
...speeches would send up unheeded prayer; That scorn of life would be but wild despair; A cymbal's sound were better than my voice ; My faith were form, my eloquence were noise. Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind, Softens the high, and rears the abject mind; Knows with... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 sider
...would send up unheeding pray'er — That scorn' of life would be but wild despair" ; A cymbal sound were better than my voice', — My faith were form', my eloquence were noise'. 3. When I beheld her* halls and chap'els, filled %vith the mon'uments, and stat'ues, and pic'tures... | |
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... tortures, and rejoice in fire; Or had I faith like that which Israel saw, When Moses gave them miracles and law; Yet... 
