Oxfordism: or, The layman's guide for detecting ... the perils ... of Puseyism, a Cowperanian poem |
Common terms and phrases
altar side APOLOGY begat bend bless boldly BOOK cast cause Christ Church Church of England crosier crown dare deist diamonds sparkling E'en e'er earth eternal day ev'ry eyes faith fall fear flame foes friends frown giv'n give glory grace groan'd hand happy day head heart heav'n heav'nly hell holy honest humbly Jesu's feet JOHN BULL kind Sirs land lift live look Lord lov'd MAYNOOTH mercy mighty mighty hand mind ne'er nought o'er open face pain papal path pursue plain popish pow'r praise pray prayers preach prepar'd PROGRESS OF ERROR Pusey's Puseyism Rome seek shew sigh sing skies smile socinian song souls speak spirit sprung stand stream strife tell thee things thou thought throne tide Of light true truth Twill unto voice way-mark ween What's Whence Where's their home wisdom's wise word
Popular passages
Page 63 - When nations are to perish in their sins, Tis in the church the leprosy begins : The priest, whose office is, with zeal sincere, To watch the fountain, and preserve it clear, Carelessly nods and sleeps upon the brink, While others poison what the flock must drink...
Page 46 - Hear the just law — the judgment of the skies ! He that hates truth shall be the dupe of lies : And he that will be cheated to the last, Delusions strong as hell shall bind him fast.
Page 97 - But there is yet a liberty unsung By poets, and by senators unpraised, Which monarchs cannot grant, nor all the powers Of Earth and Hell confederate take away : A liberty, which persecution, fraud, Oppression, prisons have no power to bind ; Which whoso tastes can be enslaved no more.
Page 97 - Of earth and hell confederate take away ; A liberty which persecution, fraud, Oppression, prisons, have no power to bind; Which whoso tastes can be enslaved no more. 'Tis liberty of heart, derived from Heaven, Bought with His blood who gave it to mankind, And sealed with the same token. It is held By charter, and that charter sanctioned sure By the unimpeachable and awful oath And promise of a God. His other gifts All bear the royal stamp that speaks them his, And are august, but this transcends...
Page 63 - Prepared to fight for shadows of no worth : While truths on which eternal things depend Find not, or hardly find, a single friend. As soldiers watch the signal of command, They learn to bow, to sit, to kneel, to stand, Happy to fill religion's vacant place With hollow form, and gesture, and grimace.
Page 17 - tis the sad complaint, and almost true, Whate'er we write, we bring forth nothing new. 'Twere new indeed, to see a bard all fire, Touched with a coal from Heaven, assume the lyre...
Page 46 - No — the cross ! There and there only (though the Deist rave, And Atheist, if Earth bear so base a slave;) There and there only is the power to save. There no delusive hope invites despair ; No mockery meets you, no deception there. The spells and charms, that blinded you before, All vanish there, and fascinate no more.