 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 - 1860 - 542 pages
...Gibson! preach in vain. O great restorer of the good old stage, 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 ; And bade thee live, to crown... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - 1860 - 389 pages
...beast, but for some utility which they might get from it." — (Cicero, De Natura Deorum, I. 36.) " Oh, worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes,— A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods ! " NOTE XXXL, p. 66. "The object of religion as of philosophy, is eternal truth in its very objectivity,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...Still break the benches, Henley ! with thj stnun, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson, preach in vain. Oh great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany of thy ngc ! Oil worthy ihou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest, where monkeys were the godn ! But fate... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 808 pages
...title of " restorer of ancient eloquence," and Pope thus apostrophized him in the " Dunciad r " О great restorer of the good old stage. Preacher at once and zany of thy age 1 О worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, Л decent priest where monkeys vero the gods t Notwithstanding... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 814 pages
...HENNA HENNEPIN O preat restorer of the good old stage. Preacher at once and капу of thy age 1 О worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest where monkeys were the goda t Notwithstanding this character by which he is now almost exclusively known, Henley was a man... | |
 | 1861 - 632 pages
...Still break the benches, Henley, with thy strain, While Shorloch, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain. Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once and Zany of thy age ! He usually chose a text from the Old or New Testament, and adapted it to the topics of the day, or... | |
 | 1861 - 634 pages
...break the benches, Henley, with thy strain, While Sherloch, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain. Olí, great restorer of the good old stage. Preacher at once and Zany of thy nge ! He usually chose a text from the Old or New Testament, and adapted it to the topics of the day,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...preach in vain. O great restorer of the good old stage, f29i Preacher at once, and zany of thy age ! O worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest where monkeys were the god* ! But fate with butchers plac'd thy priestly stall,'298 KEMARKS. 199 —to/ Henley stands, &c.J... | |
 | ISAAC DISRAELI - 1865 - 566 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 age ! f It will surprise when I declare that this buffoon was an indefatigable student, a proficient in... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1865 - 570 pages
...Still break the benches, Henley, with thy strain, \Vhile Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson, preach in vain. Oh ! great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and Zany of thy age ! •)• It will surprise when I declare that this buffoon was an indefatigable student, a proficient... | |
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