 | 1894 - 576 Seiten
...no ' doggerel ; no blotches ; nothing put in to patch up the ' rhyme ; no feeble expletives. . . . Here are, allow me to ' say, both the purity, the...the ' English language ; and, at the same time, the most ' simplicity and plainness, suited to every capacity.' Yet Charles Wesley's hymns would never... | |
 | 1881 - 622 Seiten
...Here is nothing turgid ' or bombast on the one hand, or low and creeping on the ' other. ... 4. There are, allow me to say, both the purity, ' the strength, and the clearance of the English language, and ' at the same time the utmost simplicity and plainness suited... | |
 | John Wesley - 1809 - 460 Seiten
...turgid and bombast on the one hand, or low and creeping on the other. Here are no cant expressions, no words without meaning. Here are (allow me to say)...simplicity and plainness, suited to every capacity." Mr. Charles Wesley wrote short hymns on most of the remarkable passages of the Old and New Testament,... | |
 | John Wesley, Charles Wesley - 1816 - 602 Seiten
...and verse, and use no word hut in a fixed and determinate seuse. 4. Here are, (allow me to say) hoth the purity, the strength, and the elegance of the...: and, at the same time, the utmost simplicity and plaiuness, suited to every capacity. Lastly, I desire men of taste to jndge, (these are the only competent... | |
 | John Wesley - 1820 - 584 Seiten
...common tense, both in prose nud vor.-e, and use no words but in a. Bit and determinate sense. -\. litre are, (allow me to .say,) both the purity, the strength, and the elegance of the, English lan^ua^e: ami, at tin- same time, ihe utmost simplicity and plainness, suited (o every capacity. iJastly,... | |
 | 1845 - 694 Seiten
...talk common sense both in prose and verse, and use no word but in a fixed and determinate sense. 4. Here are, allow me to say, both the purity, the strength,...simplicity and plainness, suited to every capacity. Lastly. I desire men of taste to judge (these are the only competent judges) whether there be not in... | |
 | 1847 - 662 Seiten
...prose and verse, and use no word but in a fixed and determinate sense. Yet, allow me to say, here are both the purity, the strength, and the elegance of...simplicity and plainness, suited to every capacity." t " Dr. Blair is an elegant, bat not a deep, writer ; much resembling, but not equalling, Mr. Seed."... | |
 | Henry Moore - 1825 - 606 Seiten
...turgid or bombastic, on the one hand, or low and creeping on the other. Here are no cant expressions, no words without meaning. Here are, (allow me to say,)...simplicity and plainness, suited to every capacity." He wrote short hymns on most of the remarkable passages of the Old and New Testament, and very largely... | |
 | 1825 - 516 Seiten
...the one hand, or low and creeping on tbe other. Here are no cant expressions, no words without 307 meaning. Here are (allow me to say) both the purity,...simplicity and plainness, suited to every capacity.' " He wrote short hymns on most of the remarkable passages of the Old and New Testaments, and very largely... | |
 | 1825 - 502 Seiten
...Here are ix> cant expressions, no words witbont meaning. Here are (allow me to say) both the parity, the strength, and the elegance of the English language,...the utmost simplicity and plainness, suited to every capacity.1 " He wrote short hymns on most of the remarkable passages of the Old and New Testaments,... | |
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Here are, allow me to say, both the purity, the strength, and the elegance of the English language; and, at the same time, the utmost simplicity and plainness, suited to every capacity. 
