 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
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 248 pages
...guilty men. Behold the picture !— Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostnim with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce...but far most in man, And most of all in man, that ministers And serves the altar, in my soul I loath A II affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn ; Object... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 240 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...fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-hred whisper close the scene '. In man or woman, hut far most in man, And most of all in man that... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 252 pages
...guilty men. Behold the picture !— Is it like ?— Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrnni with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce...— hem ; and reading what they never wrote, Just llli MI minutes, hnddle up their work, And with a well-hred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman,... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...men. Behold the picture ! Is it like ?— L,ke whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a 'kip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text; Cry — hem; and. reading what tuey never wrote, Just fifteen minutes huddle up their woik, And with a well-bred whitper close tbe... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 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...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... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...an assembly room." All affectation of manners, and all efforts at exquisite pronunciation we detest. In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the altar, in our «>uls wi loathe All aflectation. Ti s our perfect Korn ; Object... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - Great Britain - 1820 - 332 pages
...form of a 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...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene !" This gentleman, however, had the advantage of Cowper's divine, by just three minutes of time, and,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1869 - 306 pages
...grace to guilty meri. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount (he rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ? pronounce...fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well bred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman, but far most in man And most of all in man that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1820 - 508 pages
...and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, hnddle up their work, An, I with a well bred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the altar, in my soul l loathe All affectation. Tis my perfect scoru; Object of... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 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...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. 'T is my perfect scorn! Object... | |
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