 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And...skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem. I and reading, what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824 - 340 pages
...gold ring, and apparently think they are doing an honour to their Saviour by murdering his gospel, " the things that mount the rostrum with a skip, and then skip down again." o 2 On a Sunday morning, during my ramble through the church-yard, I espied an equipage rapidly approaching,... | |
 | John Read (maker to the army.) - 1825 - 572 pages
...described by Cowper, who " pronounce a text ; Cry, hem; and, reading what they never wrote J iisi .////// minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene." There is a medium in this as in every thing else, and we are satisfied, from considerable intercourse... | |
 | 1825 - 448 pages
...• Its thunders ; and where in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispers peace. but where, The things that mount the rostrum with a skip And...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. Can this strange change take place without producing some effect? will she be satisfied and contented?... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1825 - 248 pages
...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And...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 - 1826 - 504 pages
...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene 1 ' In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the altar,... | |
 | Lutheran Church - 1830 - 398 pages
...becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like .J — Like whom ? ,The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene ! The following is an extract from an article published in the Commercial Advertiser. We met with it,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...universal participation of mankind. READING SERMONS. " Behold the picture ! Is it like ?— Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene." COWPER. The practice of reading sermons from the pulpit is now so common, that were a minister of the... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...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...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 ministers, And serves the altar—in... | |
 | 1826 - 488 pages
...Is it like? Like whom j The things that mount Ihe rostrum with a skip, And then skip down Dgain — pronounce a text — Cry 'hem!* — and reading what...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene." Cowper. The practice of reading sermons from the pulpit is now so common, that were a minister of the... | |
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A 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,... 
