 No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compar'd with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and...  CARLYLE'S ESSAY ON BURNS - Page 61by WILLARD C. GORE - 1915Full view - About this book
 | John Stoughton - Puritans - 1848 - 356 pages
...History, vol. i. 94. CHAPTER IV. THE CHURCH IN SOUTHWARK. 'Compared with this, how poor religion's prideIn all the pomp of method and of art ; When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace except the heart. "The Power incensed the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Conduct of life - 1849 - 300 pages
...himself is most pompous when he is least sincere. " Compar'd 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 except the heart." Says Solomon, "All the ways of a man are clear in his own eyes : but... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...Devotion's every grace, except the heart ! The Power, incensed, the pageant will desert, The pompous train, 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. Then homeward all... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 pages
...display to congregations wide, Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart .' The Pow'r, incens d,tho pageant will desert. The pompous strain, the sacerdotal...But haply, in some cottage far apart. May hear, well pleas d, the language of tho coul ; And in his book of life the inmates poor enro.. XVI1L Then homeward... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere 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, except the heart ! The Power, incensed, the pageant will desert, The pompous train, the... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Agriculture - 1850 - 688 pages
...are these lines, as applied to a similar case:— I 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, except the heart. But happy we, in some cot far apart, May hear, well pleased, the language... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide, Compar'd with this, how poor Religion's pride, The Pow'r incens'd the pageant will desert, The pompous... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...tear, Together hymning their Cre itor's praise, XVII. Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In er tie them mair * " Tell him, he was a master kin', A C, The pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole ; But haply, in some cottage far apart, Devotion's every grace,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method and of art, When men display...Devotion's ev'ry grace except the heart ! The Power, incensed, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole ;8 But haply, in some cottage... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...While circling time moves round in an eternal XVII. Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In U every grace, except the heart ! The Power, incensed, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the... | |
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