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
| William Cowper - 1854 - Liczba stron: 580
...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...fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well bred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that... | |
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - Liczba stron: 1422
...tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. COWPER— Task. Bk. II. L. 394. 4 facere, tibi quid ex usu sit. , From others' slips...Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could COWPER— Task. Bk. II. L. 408. 5 He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the... | |
| 1926 - Liczba stron: 530
...novelists and poets seize on him and hold him up to scorn. Even the gentle Cowper was moved to sneer at The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And...fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well bred whisper close the scene. But of all the writers who have held up to ridicule the pillars... | |
| James Bruce Earl of Elgin, Public Archives of Canada - 1937 - Liczba stron: 422
...honorable motives thac either conviction or conversion. "Behold the picture! is it like? Like whom? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And...wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, Aud with a well bred whisper, close the scene!" 5th. Because it is an evident inconsistency in a British... | |
| 1892 - Liczba stron: 1070
...And then skip down again ; give out a text, Cry Hem ! and, reading what they never wrote, Just forty minutes, huddle up their work, And, with a well-bred whisper, close the scene.3 No matter how momentous the message with which a creature ot this kind is charged, there can... | |
| David L. Larsen - 1998 - Liczba stron: 418
..."the fashionable preacher of a city congregation" thusly: Behold the picture! Is it like? Like whom? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip And...their work. And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.1 before him was an accomplished hymnwriter as well as a preacher. His father was a Jesuit-trained... | |
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