 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...nation's care; This calls the church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. i 5o Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife, Outdo Landaffe in doctrine— -yea in life ; Let humble Allen,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...nation's care ; This calls the church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. 130 Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well ; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife, Outdo Landaffe in doctrine — yea in life : Let humble Allen,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...them, and to compare them together. Mr. Beauclerk one day repeated to Dr. Johnson Pope's lines, • Let modest Foster, if he will, excel ' Ten metropolitans in preaching well.' Then asked the Doctor, " Why did Pope say this?"—JOHNSON. " Sir, be hoped it would vex somebody."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...nation's care; This calls the church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunderofthe laws on gin : ISO Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife. Outdo Landaffin doctrine — yea, in life: Let humble Allen, with... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...nation's care ; This calls the church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. 130 Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well ; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife, Outdo Landaffe in doctrine — yea in life ; Let humble Allen,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...dinner." ti Mr. Beauclerk one day repeated tg Dr. Johnson, 1780. Pope's lines, ^~"v — ' ' .<Etat.71. e Let modest Foster, if he will, excel ' Ten metropolitans in preaching well :' Then asked the Doctor, ' Why did Pope say this?" JOHNSON. ' Sir he hoped it would vex somebody."... | |
 | Walter Wilson - Dissenters, Religious - 1808 - 652 pages
...hearer*. la the epilogue to his Satires, he has taken occasion to celebrate him in the followir.. lines: Let modest FOSTER, if he will excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well. Bishop Warburton, in his note upon this passage, has the following illnatured, priestly remark: " This... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...nation's care : This calls the church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well ; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife, Outdo Landaff in doctrine — yea, in life : Let humble Allen,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...nation's care: This .calls the church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. "Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well ; A simple quaker, or a quaker's wife, Outdo Landaff in doctrine, — yea in life: Let humble Allen,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1808 - 702 pages
...energy to thajmportant truths he delivered. Pope has borne testimony to bis talents and his fame : — " Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well." Some lines that were circulated in that day, descriptive of tbe different manner and characters of... | |
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Vice thus abused, demands a nation's care ; This calls the Church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well... 
