 | Sidney Dark - 1928 - 264 pages
...be no question. Izaak Walton rhapsodized over his sermon, describing the preacher as 'carrying some, as St. Paul was, to heaven in holy raptures, and enticing others by a sacred art and courtship to amend their lives.' In 1616 Donne was presented to a small living in Huntingdonshire... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1928 - 140 pages
...sometimes with them; always preaching to himself, like an angel from a cloud, but in none; carrying some, as St Paul was, to Heaven in holy raptures, and enticing others by a sacred art and courtship to amend their lives: here picturing a Vice so as to make it ugly to those... | |
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... a preacher in earnest ; weeping sometimes for his auditory, sometimes with them ; always preaching to himself, like an angel from a cloud, but in none ; carrying some, as St. Paul was, to heaven in holy raptures, and enticing others by a sacred art... 
