 Sunday : for the stuff is still the same, only the dressing a little altered. He has more tricks with a sermon than a tailor with an old cloak, to turn it, and piece it, and at last quite disguise it with a new preface. If he...  Lumley's bibliographical advertiser - Page 331839Full view - About this book
 | Great thoughts - 1882 - 742 pages
...people. His style is compound' d of twenty several men's, only his body imitates some one extraordinary. His commendation is — that he never looks upon book;...indeed, he was never used to it. He preaches but once a-year, though twice on a Sunday ; for the stuff is still the same, only the dressing a little altered... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1890 - 590 pages
...spin with a very good grace. He will not draw his handkerchief out of its place, nor blow his nose without discretion. His commendation is, that he never...indeed he was never used to it. He preaches but once a-year, though twice on Sunday : for the stuff is still the same, only the dressing a little altered.... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - English literature - 1891 - 246 pages
...The pace at which his sermon goes is rapid, but the labour of it is chiefly in the speaker's lungs. ' He preaches but once a year, though twice on Sunday,...for the stuff is still the same, only the dressing is a little altered.' The ' upstart county knight' is limned by Earle with not less pungency. On the... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...imitates some one extraordinary. He will not draw his handkercher out of his place, nor blow his nose without discretion. His commendation is that he never...used to it. He preaches but once a year, though twice a Sunday : for the stuff is still the same, only the dressing a little altered. He has more tricks... | |
 | Drama - 1912 - 484 pages
...in the sentence in which Earle remarks that 'He preaches but once a year, though twice on Sundays; for the stuff is still the same, only the dressing a little altered.' Again, of The Shark Earle says that he 'offers you a pottle of sack out of his joy to see you, and... | |
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