 | Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...That with more zeal keep holyday The wrong than others the right Oue way, and long another for. way ; Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to ; Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped God for spite. The selfsame thing they will... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 638 pages
...to pull it.' We will not inquire whether the noble poet has, in the present case, been one of those, who ' Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.' And we can easily conceive that scarce anything could have been less suited to Byron's eager and active... | |
 | 1828 - 514 pages
...following fable, though not broad, appear« to us keen and cutting; it a evidently directed agajust those who " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they hav« no mind to." THE SCRUPULOUS CATS, OR THE CASE OP CONSCIENCE. IT was eleven o'clock, or more,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1819 - 380 pages
...sequela of exceptions. It is the besetting temptation of many natures, and honest natures too, to " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." And perhaps few sins are more " damned" upon this principle than those of the bottle. You might as... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...distract, or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong * J , than others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have a mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipp'd God for spite : The self-same thing... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...dog distract or monkey sick; That with more care kept holiday The wrong, than others the right way ; y body die away! In sleep I heard the northern gleams; Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipp'd God for epite: The self-same thing they will... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1824 - 774 pages
...rich, in putting down the sports of the poor, preserved their own : or that they " Compound for sports they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.'' They would do well to take care, that in legislating for the abolition of cruelty, they did not introduce... | |
 | James Johnson - 1834 - 262 pages
...dew?" I cannot, for a moment, think that the Marquess of Breadalbane belongs to that class of saints, •who— " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." The drive from Tyndrum to Killin is by no means tame, or entirely devoid of historical recollections. It... | |
 | James Johnson - 1834 - 264 pages
...dew?" I cannot, for a moment, think that the Marquess of Breadalbane belongs to that class of saints, who— " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." The drive from Tyndrum to Killin is by no means tame, or entirely devoid of historical recollections. It... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1835 - 584 pages
...to pull it." We will not enquire whether the noble poet has, in the present case, been one of those, who " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." And we can easily conceive that scarce any thing could have been less suited to Byron's eager and active... | |
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