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 132by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1854 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Parton - English poetry - 1857 - 706 pages
...like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; It slipped from politics to puns: Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in...courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eela or shoeing horses. He was a shrewd and sound divine, Of loud Dissent the mortal terror ; And when,... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...not the Vicarage, or the Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; It slipped from politics to puns ; It passed...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... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; It slipped from polities to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets iu their radiant courses. And ending with some precept deep THE VICAB. He was a shrewd and sound divine,... | |
| J. C. - Ballads, English - 1860 - 196 pages
...stream which runs, With rapid change, from rock to ruses ; It slipp'd from politics to puns. It pass'd from Mahomet to Moses: Beginning with the laws which...He was a shrewd and sound divine, Of loud Dissent had mortal terror: And when, by dint of page and line. He 'stablish'd truth, or started error. The... | |
| J. C. - Ballads, English - 1860 - 218 pages
...stream which runs, With rapid change, from rock to roses : It slipp'd from politics to puns, It pass'd from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with the laws which...He was a shrewd and sound divine. Of loud Dissent had mortal terror ; And when, by dint of page and line, He 'stablish'd truth, or started error. The... | |
| Caroline M. Mersereau - Amusements - 1860 - 370 pages
...like a stream that runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; He slips from politics to puns, Passes from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which...precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses. Praed. G. — Her only labor is to kill the time, And labor dire it is, and weary woe. Thomson. A trade... | |
| 1861 - 790 pages
...told : — " Embracing politics ami puns, It took in Mahomet and Moses : Begiumng with the laws that keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending...precept deep, For dressing eels or shoeing horses." Warm hearted Praed, long since laid to rest in Kensal Green Cemetery, for how much longer are we doomed... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 314 pages
...the vicarage, or the vicar. 5. His talk was like a stream which runs, With rapid change from rooks to roses; It slipped from politics to- puns; It passed...precept deep, For dressing eels or shoeing horses, -x- * * * 6. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the... | |
| Book - Ballads, English - 1865 - 308 pages
...Beginning with the laws whieh keep The planets in their radiant eourses, And ending with some preeept deep, For dressing eels or shoeing horses. He was a shrewd and sound divine, Of loud Dissent had mortal terror; And when, by dint of page and line, He 'stablish'd truth, or started error, The... | |
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