 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 566 Seiten
...deavours,) 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 Seiten
...deavours,) 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... | |
 | Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1832 - 280 Seiten
...LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR. ' These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty"— MILTON. 1 A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice." G. HERBERT. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JG & F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 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... | |
 | 1835 - 444 Seiten
...will perhaps be more pleasing to many from their being in poetry, and thus, as he himself observes, A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. For the same cause, also, they will be more easily impressed on the mind, and, being held by the memory,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 406 Seiten
...extensive concurrence of circumstances, a» makes it absolutely beyond the calculation of mortals ; Thou whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy...a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. but when we consider ourselves as in a state of discipline for another mode of existence, the question... | |
 | George Herbert - 1838 - 406 Seiten
...MAKE A GAIN : THEIRS, WHO SHALL HURT THEMSELVES OR ME, REFRAIN. I. THE CHURCH-PORCH. PEIURRHANTEIUUM. THOU, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy...a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. Beware of lust ; it doth pollute and foul Whom God in Baptism wash'd with his own blood : It blots... | |
 | George Herbert - 1838 - 420 Seiten
...MAKE A GAIN : THEIRS, WHO SHALL HURT THEMSELVES OR ME, REFRAIN. I. THE CHURCH-PORCH. PEKIKRHANTERIUM. THOU, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy...a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. Beware of lust; it doth pollute and foul Whom God in Baptism wash'd with his own blood : It blots the... | |
 | 1825 - 560 Seiten
...velame degli versi straai. . 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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 352 Seiten
...recollected that I should 18 Perhaps Mr. Bacon remembered the first stanza in Herbert's Plmrch Porch : Thou whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure j Hearken unto a verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure. A verse may... | |
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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... 
