 His talk was like a stream, which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses: It slipped from politics to puns, It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep...  Ladies' Magazine - Page 5141829Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...Vicar is a charming poem of the latter class. His talk was like a stream which ruus With rapid chance from rocks to roses ; It slipped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, Anil ending with some precept... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 292 pages
...light on love or liquor,— Good sooth, the traveller was to blame, And not the Vicarage, or the Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change...politics to puns: It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...you my direction ! And with what fluency and whimsicality of expression he describes his Vicar ! — His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses ; It slipped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...light on love or liquor,— Good sooth, the traveller was to blame, And not the vicarage, or the vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : It slipp'd from polities to puns : It pass'd from Mahomet to Moses : .Ml Beginning with the laws which... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...on love or liquor, — Good sooth, the traveller was to blame, And not the vicarage, or the vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : 440 441 Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - Quotations - 1848 - 320 pages
...learned, valiant, And in dimension, and the shape of nature, Gracious. Twelfth. Night. 11. His talk is like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; He slips from politics to puns, Passes from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...new light on love or liquor, Good sooth the traveler was to blame, And not the Vicarage or the Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change...politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning wiih the laws which keep Tho planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept... | |
 | 1852 - 526 pages
...admired and aided him ; when, like the Reverend Doctor Brown, so cleverly etched by Mackworth Praed, His talk was like a stream, which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses; It slipped I'm. n politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...light on love or liquor, Good sooth the traveller was to blame, And not the Vicarage or the Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; It supped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1852 - 330 pages
...And not the Vicarage, or the Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses : It slipped from politics to puns : It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept... | |
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