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The Task: In Six Books - Page 47
by William Cowper - 1836 - 172 pages
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Poems, by William Cowper, Esq: Together with His Posthumous Poetry ..., Volume 2

William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...affectionate in look, 405 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,...
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... The Task, a Poem ...: For the Use of Schools and Academies

William Cowper - 1842 - 162 pages
...affectionate in look, 405 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,...
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Outlines of Congregationalism: With an Historical Sketch of Its Rise and ...

John Spencer Pearsall - Congregational churches - 1844 - 178 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 things...work, " And with a well-bred whisper close the scene." Can there be any leal successors to the apostles ? There is no superfluous instrumentality employed...
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The rhetorical reader, consisting of choice specimens of oratorical ...

John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...affectionate in lo'ok, And ten'der in addr'ess, as well becomes A messenger of gr'ace/ to guilty ma'n. Behold the picture ! — Is it lik'e ? — Like who'm ? The things/ that mount the rostrum with a sk'ip, f And then skip dow'n ag'ain ; pronounce a te'xt ; C'ry — hem ; an'd, (reading/ what they never wro'te,...
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Poems of William Cowper, Esq., with a New Memoir: Compiled from Johnson ...

William Cowper - 1846 - 310 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...— hem ; and, reading what they never wrote Just f,fteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well bred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman,...
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Poems, with a memoir of the author

William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Bebold the picture !— Is it like !— Like whom ? The things...fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a we!I-bred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that...
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New England, and Her Institutions

Jacob Abbott - Antislavery movements - 1847 - 280 pages
...labors which those new countries require. This work is not to be accomplished by "The things that motmt the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene." The new settlements of America demand the labors of men who can endure hardship ; — men of robust...
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The Columbian Magazine, Volumes 7-8

American periodicals - 1847 - 698 pages
...enthusiast." With a keener satire Cowper takes up the strain : "Belrold the picture! Ii it like 1 Like whom 1 The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down ngnin ; pronounce a Icxt, Cry. hem— and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle...
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The Gospel banner and biblical treasury [ed. by W.J. Dawson]., Volume 1

William John Dawson - 1848 - 1186 pages
...appendages, having been removed, and a plain platform slightly elevated erected ; aud in place of, "The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce » text; Cry— hem ! and reading what they never wrote Jnst fifteen mimiles, huddle up their work,...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper ...: Including the Copyright ...

William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...Affectionate in look, 405 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...
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