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Page 12
... gravity and jocoseness . His preaching was colloquial and somewhat humorous , but solidly instructive . English grammar and the niceties of pulpit diction he seemed to set at de- fiance . He often quoted blank verse from Young or 12.
... gravity and jocoseness . His preaching was colloquial and somewhat humorous , but solidly instructive . English grammar and the niceties of pulpit diction he seemed to set at de- fiance . He often quoted blank verse from Young or 12.
Page 13
... seemed to have accumulated a good stock of sermons , as he produced considerable variety . Instead of troubling his head with dif ferent languages , which so very few preachers learn sufficiently well to turn to any good account in ...
... seemed to have accumulated a good stock of sermons , as he produced considerable variety . Instead of troubling his head with dif ferent languages , which so very few preachers learn sufficiently well to turn to any good account in ...
Page 17
... seemed to look reproaches into us for our consummate cruelty . I could not endure this . To see blood streaming from its numerous wounds , to hear groans like human , to witness agonies insufferable , moved me even to tears . I borrowed ...
... seemed to look reproaches into us for our consummate cruelty . I could not endure this . To see blood streaming from its numerous wounds , to hear groans like human , to witness agonies insufferable , moved me even to tears . I borrowed ...
Page 34
... . The only time I seemed to please the whole congregation was , when I preached two school sermons from copious notes : I made an im- pression , and got a capital collection . Foolish was I , when knowing that I could take hold of 34.
... . The only time I seemed to please the whole congregation was , when I preached two school sermons from copious notes : I made an im- pression , and got a capital collection . Foolish was I , when knowing that I could take hold of 34.
Page 36
... seemed to throw you back to the reign of George II . , or thereabouts . We formed a con- siderable semicircle , father , son , granny , old uncle , the servant maid , and myself . The cloth was laid for supper , I was invited to take ...
... seemed to throw you back to the reign of George II . , or thereabouts . We formed a con- siderable semicircle , father , son , granny , old uncle , the servant maid , and myself . The cloth was laid for supper , I was invited to take ...
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Page 91 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 20 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or, peradventure, he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 179 - Heaven! Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Page 106 - This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works.
Page 89 - Disaster'd stands ; sees other hills ascend, Of unknown joyless brow; and other scenes, Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain : Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild ; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray; Impatient flouncing thro...
Page 90 - His tufted cottage rising through the snow, He meets the roughness of the middle waste, Far from the track and bless'd abode of man! While round him night resistless closes fast, And every tempest, howling o'er his head, Renders the savage wilderness more wild.
Page 87 - Sacred to neatness and repose, the alcove, The chamber, or refectory, may die : A necessary act incurs no blame. Not so when, held within their proper bounds, And guiltless of offence, they range the air, Or take their pastime in the spacious field : There they are privileged ; and he that hunts Or harms them there is guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the...
Page 87 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 89 - As thus the snows arise ; and foul, and fierce, All Winter drives along the darken'd air ; In his own loose revolving fields, the swain Disaster'd stands ; sees other hills ascend, Of unknown joyless brow ; and other scenes, Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain : Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild ; but wanders on...
Page 91 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.