A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ! and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes,... The Task: In Six Books - Page 47by William Cowper - 1836 - 172 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jacob Abbott - Antislavery movements - 1835 - 416 pages
...in the incessant labours which these new countries require. This work is not to be accomplished by ' The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And...work, And with a well-bred whisper, close the scene.' The new settlements of America demand the labours of men who can endure hardship, and of bold hearts.... | |
| Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 696 pages
...he says — Behold the picture I Is it like? Like whom? The Ihinzft that mount the rostrum with я skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text...Cry hem ! and. reading what they never wrote, Just tliirty minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper cloaethe scene. — Cowper. The... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...Affectionate in look, 40.5 And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The...skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text, 410 Cry, hem ; and reading what they never wrote, — Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...Affectionate in look, 403 And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The...skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text, 410 Cry, hem; and reading what they never wrote, — Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene ! I seek divine simplicity in him, Who handles things divine ; and all besides, Though learn'd with... | |
| Pastoral recollections - 1837 - 296 pages
...whom Cowper would have described as " A cassock'd huntsman, and a fiddling priest ;" and as one of " The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene !" And yet this was all the Christian information given in a parish which contained several thousand... | |
| William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The...the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again s pronounce a text ; Crv — hem ! and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up... | |
| Great Britain - 1837 - 392 pages
...which spring beneath our feet, than in drowsily listening to one of those well-paid gentlemen who ' reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes,...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene !' " ' You should hear Mr. Russell !' said Hannah with energy. Yes, he is a man of talent, and doubtless... | |
| Great Britain - 1837 - 224 pages
...which spring beneath ourfeet, than in drowsily listening to one of those well-paid gentlemen who ' reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes,...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene !' ' ' You should bear Mr. Russell !' said Hannah with energy. "Yes, he is a man of talent, and doubtless... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of graee to guilty men. Behold the pieture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounee a text ; Cry — Hem ; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up... | |
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