 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
 | Canada. Parliament. Senate - Canada - 1913 - 1146 pages
...stream which runs With rapirl change from rocks to roses. It passed from politics to puns It moved from Mahomet to Moses. Beginning with the laws which...planets in their radiant courses And .ending with some precepts deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. The hon. gentleman, I say, and say it to his credit,... | |
 | Frank Jenners Wilstach - Quotations, English - 1916 - 540 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. — PRAED. Great talkers are like broken pitchers, everything runs out of them. — PERSIAN PROVERBS.... | |
 | William Lawrence Schroeder - Art - 1916 - 288 pages
...Dissent the mortal terror,' whose . . . 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. And have not our sympathies gone out to Calverley's Tommy, who was ... what nurses call a ' limb '... | |
 | John Baker Opdycke - English language - 1917 - 370 pages
...Wisdom steers, wind cannot make you sink: Lips never err, when she does keep the door. — Delaune. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change...passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws that keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep tor dressing eels... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...And 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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English literature - 1923 - 374 pages
...Ficar, vir nulla donandus lauru. [Whose] 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. Three of the Vicar's companion Everyday Characters are good, but I think not so good as he; the fifth... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...like a stream, which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses: It slipped from politics to puns, 35 It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the...precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses. 40 He was a shrewd and sound divine, Of loud Dissent the mortal terror; And when, by dint of page and... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Literature - 1925 - 436 pages
...model for Praed's " 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. This is the Reverend James Woodforde in a nutshell. ANDREW LANG A DISTRACTED generation seems to have... | |
 | Deaf - 1925 - 784 pages
...perhaps my taste is better, more cultivated than yours ! Conversation ! "H's talk was like a stream that runs With rapid change from rock to roses ; It slipped...passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws that keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1927 - 368 pages
...Collinson's " Commonplace Books," nearly as full of variety and spice as the Vicar's conversation: "Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in...precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses." But of Collinson's descendants, or ancestors either, this reviewer need not tell; only he may report... | |
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