 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
 | Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 pages
...you're expected!" Uprose the Reverend Dr. Brown, Uprose the Doctor's "winsome marrow;" The lady laid her knitting down, Her husband clasped his ponderous...precept deep, For dressing eels or shoeing horses. He wrote, too, in a quiet way Small treatises and smaller verses And sage remarks on chalk and clay, And... | |
 | Samuel Davey - English literature - 1879 - 302 pages
...stream which runs, With rapid change from rocks to roses, It slips from politics to puns, It glides from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which...precept deep, For dressing eels or shoeing horses." We might divide his mind into two hemispheres โ the mathematical or abstractive, the imaginative... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1881 - 426 pages
...not the Vicarage, uor 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...Divine, Of loud Dissent the mortal terror; And when, ะชั dint of page and line, He 'stablished Truth, or startled Error, The Baptist found him far too... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1881 - 316 pages
...sooth, the traveller was to blame, And not the Vicarage or the Vicar. His talk was like a stream that runs With rapid change from rock to roses : It slipped...precept deep, For dressing eels or shoeing horses. He wrote, too, in a quiet way, Small treatises and smaller verses, And sage remarks on chalk and clay,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 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...radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep CHJLEACTER โ continued. Describe him who can, An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man. Goldsmith,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1881 - 704 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...their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deepFor dressing eels, or shoeing horses. 328 He was a shrewd and sound divine. Of loud Dissent the... | |
 | Edward Moxon (and co.) - Readers - 1882 - 580 pages
...not the Vicarage, nor 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...precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses. And when, by dint of page and line, He 'stablished Truth, or startled Error, The Baptist found him... | |
 | William Mathews - Success - 1883 - 398 pages
...roses ; It slips from politics to puns, It glides from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with the laws that keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For skinning eels or shoeing horses." But persons who thus know a little of everything generally do not... | |
 | James Parton - English poetry - 1884 - 734 pages
...Vicarage, or the Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses; 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,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1886 - 878 pages
...His 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...ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shooing horses. He was a shrewd and sound divine, Of loud Dissen^^e nioi-tal terror; And when, by "... | |
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