...With eloquence innate his tongue was armed ; Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. He bore his great commission in his look ; But sweetly tempered awe, and softened all he spoke. He...

...With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd; Though harsh the precept, yet the people charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky; And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears, A music more melodious than the spheres; For David left...

...With eloquence innate his tongue was armed, Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky ; And oft with holy hymns he charmed their ears, (A music more melodious than the spheres;) For David...

...With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd; Though harsh the precept, yet the people charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky; And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears, A music more melodious than the spheres ; For David...

...With eloquence innate his tongue was armed ; Though harsh the precept, yet the people charmed, For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky : And oft with holy hymns he charmed their ears, (A music more melodious than the spheres,) For David...

...countenance and pleasing manner impressed them with an earnest desire to hear him. " For letting down his golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky." The zeal of Swartz was untinctured by fanaticism, and nndebazed by extravagance, eccentricity, intolerance,...

...common; such as these. " By the same Lady I was enabled to say, in her own words, that Young's unbounded genius appeared to greater advantage in the companion...conversation, — letting down the golden chain from hifb, He drew In* audience upward to the >L>. " Notwithstanding Young had said, in his ' Conjectures...

...With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd ; Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd : For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. 1 Philipp. iii. 18, 19. 2 2 Cor. vi. 1. <> Ezek. xxxiii. 11. " He bore his great commission in his...

...With eloquence innate his tongue was armed ; Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. He bore his great commission in his look; But sweetly tempered awe, and softened all he spoke. He preached...

...drawen folk to heaven with faireness, By good ensample, was his business. Dryden says of his, — For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky ! The lofty idea here suggested of a figure standing in the clouds, and letting down " the golden chain"...