 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 350 pages
...assist his purpose much more than any man alive. " I think those hymns which do not immediately recall the warm and exalted language of the Bible are apt...I. P do not approve of the vague and indiscriminate scrip, ture language which the fanatics of old and the modern Methodists have adopted; but merely that... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 516 pages
...1813, Sir Walter Scott thus expresses himself: " I think those hymns which do not immediately recall the warm and exalted language of the Bible, are apt...purposes of devotion. You will readily believe that I do not approve of the vague and indiscriminate scripture language which the fanatics of old and the... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 334 pages
...assist his purpose much more than any man alive. " I think those hymns which do not immediately recall the warm and exalted language of the Bible are apt...purposes of devotion. You will readily believe that I do not approve of the vague and indiscriminate scripture language which the fanatics of old and the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 486 pages
...however elegant, rather cold and flat for the purposes of devotion. You will readily believe that I do not approve of the vague and indiscriminate scripture...and the modern Methodists have adopted; but merely must suppose that Dryden, as a poet, was interested in the poetical part of the religion which he had... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pages
...assist his purpose much more than any man alive. " I think those hymns which do not immediately recall the warm and exalted language of the Bible are apt to be, however elegant, rather cold and fiat for the purposes of devotion. You will readily believe that I do not approve of the vague and... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 428 pages
...assist his purpose much more than any man alive. " I think those hymns which do not immediately recall the warm and exalted language of the Bible are apt...purposes of devotion. You will readily believe that I do not approve of the vague and indiscriminate Scripture language which the fanatics of old and the... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1838 - 356 pages
...assist his purpose much more than any man alive. " I think those hymns which do not immediately recall the warm and exalted language of the Bible are apt...i. p do not approve of the vague and indiscriminate scrip ture language which the fanatics of old and the modern Methodists have adopted; but merely that... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 428 pages
...assist his purpose much more than any man alive. " I think those hymns which do not immediately recall the warm and exalted language of the Bible are apt...purposes of devotion. You will readily believe that I do not approve of the vague and indiscriminate Scripture language which the fanatics of old, and the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 432 pages
...assist his purpose much more than any man alive. " I think those hymns which do not immediately recall the warm and exalted language of the Bible are apt...purposes of devotion. You will readily believe that I do not approve of the vague and indiscriminate Scripture language which the fanatics of old, and the... | |
 | 1842 - 300 pages
...collection of hymns. These are Scott's words : " I think those hymns which do not immediately recall the warm and exalted language of the Bible, are apt...purposes of devotion. You will readily believe that 1 do not approve of the vague and indiscriminate Scripture language which fanatics of old and the modern... | |
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I think those hymns which do not immediately recall the warm and exalted language of the Bible are apt to be, however elegant, rather cold and flat for the purposes of devotion. You will readily believe that I do not approve of the vague and indiscriminate... 
