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" Vicar. 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... "
The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed - Page 138
by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1866
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...ruus With rapid chance 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, Anil ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. He was a shrewd and sound divine,...
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The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 292 pages
...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...radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep He was a. shrewd and sound divine, Of loud Dissent the mortal terror; And when, by dint of page and...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 123

American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...; It slipped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with the laws that keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending...precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had a knack of joking ; He did not make himself a bear,...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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 keep The planets in...mortal terror ; And when, by dint of page and line, He establish'd truth, or started error, The Baptist found him far too deep : The Deist sigh'd with saving...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...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...mortal terror ; And when, by dint of page and line, He establish'd truth, or started error, The Baptist found him far too deep : The Deist sigh'd with saving...
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The Sibyl: Or, New Oracles from the Poets

Caroline Howard Gilman - Quotations - 1848 - 320 pages
...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 The...precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses. PRAED — The Vicar. 12. All who approach him by that spell are bound, Which nobler natures weave themselves...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning wiih the laws which keep Tho planets in their radiant courses, And ending with...by dint of page and line, He 'stablished truth or startled error, The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow, And the lean...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...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...by dint of page and line, He 'stablished truth or startled error, The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow, And the lean...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1

Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; It supped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep The...by dint of page and line, He 'stablished truth or startled error, . The Baptist found him far too deep ; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow, And the...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

English literature - 1852 - 526 pages
...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...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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