 | Thomas Somerville - Clergy - 1861 - 426 pages
...free-thinkers of the age in which he lived. It is to this Dr. Foster that Pope refers in the lines — " Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well." (Epil. to the Satire1, Dial. 1.)— ED. ments, and the splendour of his eloquence. I was informed by... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 332 pages
...anxious to get a likeness" of "good Dr. Foster" (the same whom Pope has honoured with the couplet, — " Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well") " attended his meeting one Sunday evening ;" and very naturally, not being acquainted with Dr. Foster's... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Literature - 1863 - 332 pages
...anxious to get a likeness" of " good Dr. Foster" (the same whom Pope has honoured with the couplet, — " Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well") " attended his meeting one Sunday evening ;" and very naturally, not being acquainted with Dr. Foster's... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1863 - 764 pages
...noticed, with due reprehension, his malicious perversion of ' his master's commendation ' of Foster : Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well,* 'a commendation so plain,' observes Cooper, 'that one would imagine it was out of the power of dulness... | |
 | Daniel Moore - 1865 - 218 pages
...referred to is Dr James Foster, a preacher in the City, of some eminence, as appears from Pope's lines : Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well. Epilogue to Sat. Dial. I. fore the man reads in vain. Such a man is a subject not for our reproofs,... | |
 | 1882 - 972 pages
...very little in common. At Pinners' Hall one of the preachers was that Foster, of whom Pope wrote : — Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well. Of the laity connected with the place, one of the principal was Mr. Shute, afterwards Viscount Barrington,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 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 Llandaff in doctrine, — yea in life : Let humble ALLEN,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 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 Quakers wife, || Outdo LlandafT,If in doctrine, — yea, in life : Let humble... | |
 | 1869 - 662 pages
...Llandaff, but, after four years, translated to Peterborough. To the next Bishop, Pope has alluded. " Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife, Outdo Llaudaff in doctrine, yea, in life." This was John Norris,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...care ; This calls the Church to deprecate our Sin n, And hurls the Thunder of the Laws on 6Y«4 130 Let modest FOSTER, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well 31 ; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's Wife1*, Out-do Llandaff13 in Doctrine, — yea in Life : i 1 In... | |
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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... 
