 | William Passman - 1815 - 328 Seiten
...prosper accordingly. It was the saying of the Divine Herbert, in his Poems, p. 1" A verse may catch him who a sermon flies; " And turn delight into a sacrifice." The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, in his Directions to the Clergy of his diocese, gives the following... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1818 - 890 Seiten
...parts of one body ; so ought to hare one spirit, and one of their calling to fit them for glory ; since A Verse may find him who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. All that have Mr. Milton's fine Poem, which too abruptly leaves off at our Saviour's conquest over... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1818 - 894 Seiten
...parts of one body ; so ought to have one spirit, and one of their calling to fit them for glory ; since A Verse may find him who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. All that have Mr. Milton's fine Poem, which too abruptly leaves off at our Saviour's conquest over... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1820 - 442 Seiten
...guise of an amusement, he should be most likely to serve his purpose; remembering that of the poet: A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. He was resolved therefore to attempt something that never yet had been done. He considered that the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 Seiten
...deavours,) not unlikely to prove of great advantage to the public i since, as Mr Herbert well observes, " A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice." * Blount preserves, indeed, that affectation of respect for the doctrines of the established church... | |
 | 1822 - 792 Seiten
...the world with pleasure and piety." THE CHURCH PORCH. Thou, whose sweet Youth and early hopes inhance Thy rate and price and mark thee for a treasure ;...a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. 2 Beware of lust : it doth poHate and foul "Whom God in Baptism washed with his own blond. It blots... | |
 | 1822 - 796 Seiten
...the world with pleasure and piety." THE CHURCH PORCH. Thou, whose sweet Youth and early hopes inhance Thy rate and price and mark thee for a treasure ;...bait of pleasure. A verse may find him, who a sermon dies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. 2 Beware of last: it doth pollute and foul Whom God in Baptism... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 556 Seiten
...velame degli versi strani. He might have added the first stanza of good George Herbert's Church-Porch. Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy...a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. If this hope should prove chimerical, it was at least, he said> one of those pleasing and innocent... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1825 - 582 Seiten
...Thy rate and price, and mark tliee for a treasure, Hearken unto a vcrser who may chance Khymu tliec to good and make a bait of pleasure. A verse may find him who a sermon flics, And turn delight into a sacrifice. If this hope should prove chimerical, it was at least, he... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 Seiten
...endeavours), not unlikely to prove of great advantage to the public ; since, as Mr Herbert well observes, «A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. » ' Blount preserves, indeed, that affectation of respect for the doctrines of the established church... | |
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THOU, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a... 
