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Nor did the pulpit’s oratory fail To achieve its higher triumph.—Not unfelt Were its admonishments, nor lightly heard The awful truths, delivered thence by tongues Endowed with various power to search the soul.
Nor did the pulpit’s oratory fail To achieve its higher triumph.—Not unfelt Were its admonishments, nor lightly heard The awful truths, delivered thence by tongues Endowed with various power to search the soul.
Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- William Wordsworth
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- Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 612 · printed citation: Wordsworth · subject: TONGUE
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