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" His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : It slipped from politics to puns : It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep... "
The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed - Page 168
by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 287 pages
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Ladies' Magazine, Volume 2

1829 - 606 pages
...with marvelous originality and variety, having, as he said, ' an insight into most every thing.' — " His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change...politics to puns, It passed from Mahomet to Moses." And if ever there was any little matter in history or politics, of which we had not all desirable information,...
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...Vicar is a charming poem of the latter class. His talk was like a stream which ruus With rapid chance from rocks to roses ; It slipped from politics to...laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, Anil ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. He was a shrewd and sound divine,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 123

American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...you my direction ! And with what fluency and whimsicality of expression he describes his Vicar ! — His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses ; It slipped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...light on love or liquor,— Good sooth, the traveller was to blame, And not the vicarage, or the vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : It slipp'd from polities to puns : It pass'd from Mahomet to Moses : .Ml Beginning with the laws which...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...on love or liquor, — Good sooth, the traveller was to blame, And not the vicarage, or the vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : 440 441 Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with...
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The Sibyl: Or, New Oracles from the Poets

Caroline Howard Gilman - Quotations - 1848 - 320 pages
...learned, valiant, And in dimension, and the shape of nature, Gracious. Twelfth. Night. 11. His talk is like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; He slips from politics to puns, Passes from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep...
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...new light on love or liquor, Good sooth the traveler was to blame, And not the Vicarage or the Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change...with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing hones. He was a shrewd and sound divine, Of loud dissent the mortal terror ; And when by dint of page...
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Hogg's Instructor, Volumes 9-10

English literature - 1852 - 1068 pages
...stream which rans With rapid change from rocks to roses ; It slip! from politics to pans: It glides from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which...with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing hones.' RP Gillies of the ' Foreign Quarterly Review,' describing De Qoinoey as he was some six-and-lhirty...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 94

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1852 - 516 pages
...Vol. iii. t Letters, Conversations, &c., of ST Coleridge, 1835. March. — voi.. xdv. NO. CCCLxxV. и Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in...precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. It was now pent up in narrower channels ; wide enough, however, and diversified enough to excite pilgrims...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

English literature - 1852 - 526 pages
...admired and aided him ; when, like the Reverend Doctor Brown, so cleverly etched by Mackworth Praed, His talk was like a stream, which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses; It slipped I'm. n politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets...
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