 A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ! and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes,...  Poems - Strona 50autor: William Cowper - 1819Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1872
...must be the best preacher." Cowper's words, it would seem, have a point and meaning in our day :— " The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And...text, Cry, hem! and reading what they never wrote,— D Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene." Such preaching... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - 1874 - Liczba stron: 373
...address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture. Is it like 1 Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip And...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene ! " t * In England the practice here objected to is so very general, that most hearers would be surprised... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - Liczba stron: 778
...cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. The Tash. Booh ii. Tlie Timepiece. Line 363. Reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes,...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. Ibid. Line 411. Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not. Ibid. Line 444 Variety 's the very spice... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874
...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like? — Like whom? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text, 410 Cry Hem ! and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874
...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ?— Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again; pronounce a text; 410 Cry — hem ! and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874
...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again; pronounce a text; 410 Cry — hem ! and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And... | |
 | JOHN MULLIGAN, A.M. - 1874
...there is no break in the sense. We here submit another example of this use. " Is it like ? like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then — skip down again." (c). — The system of punctuation, it seems to us, is not yet satisfactorily settled. Perhaps, a deeper... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875
...whom? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; 410 Cry — hem ! and reading what they never wrote Just...most in man, * And most of all in man that ministers 415 And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn; Object of my... | |
 | HENRY THOMAS GRIFFITH - 1875
...as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture!—Is it like ?—Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again; pronounce a text; 410 Cry—hem! and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - Liczba stron: 864
...Liber L c. 5. » Compare Churchill, The Farewell. • Compare Dryden, Spanish Friar, Act ii. Sc. I. Reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes,...huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper dose the scene. The Task. Book\\. The Timepiece. Line 411. Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not.... | |
| |
