Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ;... The Poetical Works - Seite 204von William Cowper - 1889 - 536 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Holt Rice, Benjamin Holt Rice - 1833 - 460 Seiten
...gospel, as drawn by Cowper : - ' Simple, grave, sincere ; ' Fn doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain, ' And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste ' And...affectionate in look, 'And tender in address, as well hecomes ' A messenger of grace to guilty men.' " In a letter to Mr. H., written about a month after... | |
| John Holt Rice, Benjamin Holt Rice - 1833 - 466 Seiten
...And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste ' And natural in gesture ; much impressed ' Himself, us conscious of his awful charge, 'And anxious mainly...well becomes ' A messenger of grace to guilty men.' " In a letter to Mr. H., written about a month after he began his course of study, after expressing... | |
| John Young (M.A.) - 1833 - 328 Seiten
...residence, was one of those whom the keen, sarcastic pen of Covvper has so inimitably portrayed. — " Behold the picture ! Is it like ? Like whom ? * The...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... | |
| Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 Seiten
...gesture ; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, \ml anxious mainly that the nock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look And...address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty man.' In the third book, THE GARDEN, the poet enters upon a widely different subject, expatiating in... | |
| 1833 - 2950 Seiten
...language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men." We have now sketched the plan of a colony, to be composed of fifteen families; three for agricultural,... | |
| 1834 - 400 Seiten
...language plain, And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impress'd As conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men." " I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident,... | |
| 1834 - 496 Seiten
...language plain, And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impress'd As conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men." " I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident,... | |
| Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 Seiten
...grave, sincere ; In doctrine nncorrupt ; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chast And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as...messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture 1 Is it like ?— Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again... | |
| 1880 - 606 Seiten
...plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impressed Himself, as conscions of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men." — Taslt, В. Н. 3-— THE PICTORIAL OR SCENIC SERMON. This, so far from being obsolete, may fairly... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1881 - 336 Seiten
...his design ; I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain, And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste, And...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men." One of the papers of the " Spectator" has for its object to show that the moderns have greater advantages... | |
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