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" A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ! and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes,... "
Poems - Page 50
by William Cowper - 1819
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Poems,

William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 252 pages
...guilty men. Behold the picture !— Is it like ?— Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrnni with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce...— hem ; and reading what they never wrote, Just llli MI minutes, hnddle up their work, And with a well-hred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman,...
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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a ...

Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...men. Behold the picture ! Is it like ?— L,ke whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a 'kip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text; Cry — hem; and. reading what tuey never wrote, Just fifteen minutes huddle up their woik, And with a well-bred whitper close tbe...
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A Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland: And of Two ..., Volume 2

Benjamin Silliman - Great Britain - 1820 - 332 pages
...loose declamation, in the form of a sermon, in precisely twelve minutes. He seemed to be one of those . things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene !" This gentleman, however, had the advantage of Cowper's divine, by just three minutes of time, and,...
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Poems of William Cowper, Esq: With a New Memoir

William Cowper - 1869 - 306 pages
...grace to guilty meri. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount (he rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ? pronounce...fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well bred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman, but far most in man And most of all in man that...
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The Etonian, Volume 2

1821 - 456 pages
...gold ring, and apparently think they are doing an honour to their Saviour by murdering his gospel, " the things that mount the Rostrum with a skip, and then skip down again." On a Sunday morning, during my ramble through the churchyard, I espied an equipage rapidly approaching,...
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The Etonian

1820 - 696 pages
...gold ring, and apparently think they are doing an honour to their Saviour by murdering his gospel, " the things that mount the Rostrum with a skip, and then skip down again." On a Sunday morning, during my ramble through the churchyard, I espied an equipage rapidly approaching,...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1821 - 246 pages
...and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well -bred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman, but far most in man, And must of all in man that ministers And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. Tis my...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 36

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 562 pages
...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And...work, And with a wellbred whisper close the scene ! To conquer those by jocular exploits, Whom truth and soberness assail'd in vain. O Popular Applause...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 80

British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like? — like whom? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And...fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well bred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that...
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The task. [Followed by] Tirocinium: or, A review of schools

William Cowper - 1822 - 258 pages
...things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again; pronounce a text; Cry—hem ; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well bred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that...
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