 A minister," the godly Blue Dick tells us, modestly forbearing to name himself, "was on top of the city ladder, near sixty steps high, with a whole pike in his hand, rattling down proud Becket's glassy bones, when others present would not venture so high.  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 5551906Full view - About this book
 | William Gostling - 1779 - 364 pages
...defcribing his own performance he fays, " A minifter was on the top of the city ladder, near fixtjf fteps high, with a whole pike in his hand, rattling down proud Becket's glafly bones, when others then prefent would not ventur? fo high." * A ftnnger, who had fesn Weftminfler... | |
 | John Britton - 1816 - 396 pages
...Virginis Mariae, Matris Dei," &c. In describing his own performance he says, " A minister was on the top of the city ladder, near sixty steps high, with...rattling down proud Becket's glassy bones ', when others then present would not venture so high." At the same time the font built by the Right Rev. John Warner,... | |
 | L. Fussell - East Sussex (England) - 1818 - 322 pages
...pontificalibus, &c." He adds, " A minister was on the top of the city ladder, near sixty steps high, with a pike in his hand, rattling down proud Becket's glassy bones, when others then present would not venture so high." But there was one circumstance attending the transaction,... | |
 | John Gamble - 1819 - 748 pages
...pontificalibus, &c." He adds, " A minister was on the top of the eity ladder, near sixty steps high, with a pike in his hand, rattling down proud Becket's glassy bones, when others then present would not venture so high." But there was one circumstance attending the transaction,... | |
 | William Gostling - Canterbury (England) - 1825 - 490 pages
...Virginis MaricB Matris Dei, fyc. In describing his own performance he says, " A minister was on the top of the city ladder, near sixty steps high, with...rattling down proud Becket's glassy bones, when others then present would not venture so high." One circumstance, which he did not think proper to insert... | |
 | John Oliver Willyams Haweis - England - 1844 - 348 pages
...survived the Reformation, and only perished in the age when Culmer stood "on the top of the Canterbury city ladder, near sixty steps high, with a whole pike...rattling down proud Becket's glassy bones, when others then present, would not venture so high." iii. It is needless to observe that the reformers were no... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...vain of the performance, although he withholds his name : — " Л minister," he says, " was on the top of the city ladder, near sixty steps high, with...rattling down proud Becket's glassy bones, when others then present would not venture so high." In the days of Queen Ann and the two first Georges, repairs... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 582 pages
...he withholds his name: "A minister," he says, " was on the top of the city ladder, near sixty stups high, with a whole pike in his hand, rattling down proud Becket's glassy bones, when others then present would not venture so high." The modes in which self-admiration exhibía itself are very... | |
 | Rites and ceremonies - 1848 - 452 pages
...their great Diana, ' Hold your hands, holt, holt, heers [sic] Sir, &c.' A minister being then on the top of the city ladder, near sixty steps high, with...his hand rattling down proud Becket's glassy bones (others then present would not adventure so high), to him it was said, , 'Tis a shame for a minister... | |
 | 1848 - 452 pages
...their great Diana, ' Hold your hands, holt, holt, heers [sic] Sir, &c.' A minister being then on the top of the city ladder, near sixty steps high, with...his hand rattling down proud Becket's glassy bones (others then present would not adventure so high), to him it was said, ' 'Tis a shame for a minister... | |
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