Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again : pronounce a text, Cry, hem ! and, reading -what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred... The Port Folio - Page 3061809Full view - About this book
| Peter L. Courtier - Christian biography - 1809 - 392 pages
...hearers. He presents, in every respect, a fine contrast to .,'•'• - o . ' The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce...work ; And, with a well-bred whisper, close the scene I' .', . . . '' . o • , • . '1 • .« Few of these, whom the poet so contemptuously calls ' things,'... | |
| John Corry - London (England) - 1809 - 236 pages
...in the following lines: • ; " The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And thcn skip Aon n again ; pronounce a text ; Cry— -hem; and, reading...work; And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!" Yet even these fashionable and flimsey orators are pardonable, compared with the avaricious pluralist,... | |
| 1809 - 592 pages
...grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom .' The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again. Pronounce...never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their wort, And w ith a well-bred whisper close the scene. In man or woman, but far most in man, And most... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...whom? The things that mount the roslrum with a skip, And then skip down again; pronounce a text; 410 Cry — hem; and reading what they never wrote, Just...work, And with a wellbred whisper close the scene! And most of all in man, thai ministers And serves the altar, in my soul I loath All affectation. Tis... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! Is it like ?....Like whom ? The things, that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry....hem ; and, reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And... | |
| William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! Is it like ? Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry....hem ; and, reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And... | |
| Benjamin Silliman - Great Britain - 1812 - 340 pages
...sermon, in precisely twelve minutes. He seemed to be one of those " — —— things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again. Pronounce a text; Cry — hc-m ; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, Ami with... | |
| William Cowper - 1812 - 390 pages
...messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture!—Is it like?—Like whom? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again; pronounce a text; Cry—hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a... | |
| Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 pages
...messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! Is it like ?— Like whom The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce...And with a well-bred whisper close the scene !" In fact, w« cannot hut urge this point, not that we wish to become censors, or to dictate what ought... | |
| J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...grace to guilty men. Behold the picture !— -is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text; Cry — hern ; and, reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with... | |
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