 How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung! Still break the benches, Henley ! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain. Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once,...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 369by Alexander Pope - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Still break the benchee, Henley ! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson, preach in vain. Egypt'» wise abodes, A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods Ï But fate with butcher« placed... | |
 | Satire, English - 1831 - 790 pages
...StilI break the benches, Hen-ley 1 with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson,t preach in vain. Oh great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany of thy age ! Oli worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods f But fate with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1835 - 382 pages
...preach in vain. O great restorer of the good old stage, [m* Preacher at once, and Zany of thy age ! O worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest,...gods ! But fate with butchers plac'd thy priestly stall,20*1 109 — lo ! Henley stands, &c.] J. Henley, the orator ; he preached on the Sundays upon... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 320 pages
...preach in vain. O, great restorer of the good old stage, 205 Preacher at once and zany of thy age ! O, worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest,...where monkeys were the gods ! But fate with butchers placed thy priestly stall, Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul ; 210 And bade thee live, to... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Croly - 1835 - 312 pages
...preach in vain. O, great restorer of the good old stage, 205 Preacher at once and zany of thy age ! O, worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest,...where monkeys were the gods ! But fate with butchers placed thy priestly stall, Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul; 210 And bade thee live, to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...Still hreak the henches, Henley ! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gihson, preach in vain. the shocking armies closed, To lances lances, shields to shields opposed ; Host against ahodes, A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods ! But fate with hutchers placed thy priestly stall,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 320 pages
...with thy strain, While Sherluck, Hare, and Gihson, preach in vain. Oh great restorer of the good uld stage, Preacher at once, and zany of thy age ! Oh worthy thou of Egypt's wise ahodes, A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods ! But fate with hutchers placed thy priestly stall,... | |
 | Scotland - 1837 - 898 pages
...Proceed and prosper, war with in .nkind wage, A wondrous full-grown Zany for thy age. () worthy thoti of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest where monkeys were the gods ; But Fate with butchers bade thee rise and fall, Our mother tongue to murder, hack, and maul, And bade thee, on the thistle... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...Still break the benches, Henley, with thy »train. While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson4 preach in vain. 0 ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Fame but from death a villain's 1 О worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest, where monkeys were Ihe gods ! But fate with... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 pages
...Still break the benches, Henley, with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson, preach in vain. Oh ! great restorer of the good old stage. Preacher at once, and Zany of thy ago * !" It will surprise when I declare that this buffoon was an indefatigable student, a proficient... | |
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