 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 sider
...speeches would send up unheeded pray'r: 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. How few, like thee, inquire the wretched out, And court the offices of soft humanity... | |
 | Brainard Gardner Smith - 1898 - 216 sider
...not thy power exerted in my breast, 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. 32. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for I am looking out for no fragment... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sider
...speeches would send up unheeded prayer; 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. The vocabulary here is not in fact very elaborate; it is the use of periphrasis that strikes... | |
 | 1830 - 250 sider
...defpair. A cymbol's found were better than my voice: faith were form, my eloquence were noifc. Charity »! Charity ! decent, modeft, eafy, kind, Softens the high, and rears the abjeft mind : Knows, with juft reigns, and gentle hand ta guide Betwixt vile fhame, and arbitrary pride; Not foon provok'd fhe eafily... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1709 - 404 sider
...Speeches would send up unheeded Pray'r : That Scorn of Life would be but wild Despair : A TymbaPs 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 abjedt Mind ; Knows with... | |
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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... 
