 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
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...illustrious, goes the clerk. d. COWPEB — On Observing Some Names of Little Note. The things that mount the o ! «. COWPER— The Task. Bk. II. L. 408. This priest he merry is, and blithe Three-quarters of a year,... | |
 | William Andrews - Architecture - 1896 - 308 pages
...the parsons were not as yet the men they were in the time of Cowper : — " The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text, Cry ' hem ; ' and read what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1898 - 330 pages
...things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text, 4'° Cry-hem ! and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes,...woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers 4' 5 And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn ; Object... | |
 | 1898 - 588 pages
...treats the pulpit simply as so much business to get over ; far too many who Pronounce a text : Cry hem I and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes,...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. Be it ours to quit ourselves like men, and, having been intrusted with the cure of souls, do our best,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1898 - 334 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, 4'° Cry-hem ! and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900 - 346 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, 410 Cry — hem ! and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 614 pages
...squar'd, That all might see the doctrine which they heard. — Dryden -. * Character of a Good Parson. * In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. "Tis my perfect scorn ; Object... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...squar'd, That all might see the doctrine which they heard. — Dryden : * Character of л Good Parson* In man or woman, but far most in man. And most of all In man that ministen And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn ; Object... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. . Reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes,...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not. Variety 's the very spice of life.8 She that asks Her dear... | |
 | Geraldine Edith Mitton - Biography & Autobiography - 1905 - 416 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, ahem ! and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred... | |
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