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
| John Bunyan - 1823 - Liczba stron: 546
...messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture I—Is it like?—Like whom ? The things Ibat mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene." The Task, Book II. The Time-piece. Passion and Patience. I saw moreover in my dream, that the Interpreter... | |
| British poets - 1824 - Liczba stron: 676
...Object of my implacable disgust. Cowper's Tatk, b. 2. Behold the picture ! Is it like ? Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip And...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. Ibid. From such apostles, oh ye mitred heads Preserve the church ; and lay not careless hands On sculls... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - Liczba stron: 510
...well becomes A messenger of grace to guiltv men. Behold the picture!— Is Tt lik'e ?— Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip. And...wrote. Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And In m; And most of all in man that ministers ha well-brtd whisper close the scene ! And serves the altar,... | |
| William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - 1824 - Liczba stron: 392
...Behold the picture ! Is it like .'—Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, Anil then skip down again ; pronounce a text; Cry — Hem...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene." COWPER. The practice of reading sermons from the pulpit is now so common, that were a minister of the... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - Liczba stron: 446
...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...skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem. I and reading, what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred... | |
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - Liczba stron: 340
...gold ring, and apparently think they are doing an honour to their Saviour by murdering his gospel, " the things that mount the rostrum with a skip, and then skip down again." o 2 On a Sunday morning, during my ramble through the church-yard, I espied an equipage rapidly approaching,... | |
| John Read (maker to the army.) - 1825 - Liczba stron: 572
...described by Cowper, who " pronounce a text ; Cry, hem; and, reading what they never wrote J iisi .////// minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene." There is a medium in this as in every thing else, and we are satisfied, from considerable intercourse... | |
| 1825 - Liczba stron: 448
...• Its thunders ; and where in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispers peace. but where, The things that mount the rostrum with a skip And...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. Can this strange change take place without producing some effect? will she be satisfied and contented?... | |
| William Cowper - 1825 - Liczba stron: 248
...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1826 - Liczba stron: 504
...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...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene 1 ' In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the altar,... | |
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