Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Poems - Seite 44von William Cowper - 1806Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William M. Thayer - 1886 - 480 Seiten
...gesture ; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look And...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men,". As we shall learn hereafter, Dr. Jewett was very familiar with the standard poets of Great Britain... | |
| James Roberts - 1886 - 154 Seiten
...gesture ; much impress'd Himself as conscious of his awful charge ; And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look And...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men." From the Rev. Thomas D. Jester, successor to Dr. Dale, as Pastor of the Middletown Presbyterian Church,... | |
| William Phipps Blake - 1888 - 378 Seiten
...manner. Much impressed himself, and conscious of his awful charge, and anxious mainly that the flock he feeds may feel it too; affectionate in look, and...address, as well becomes a messenger of grace to guilty man. Behold the picture. Is it like ? And if so, like whom ? God gave to your fathers and mothers a... | |
| William Cowper - 1889 - 632 Seiten
...gesture; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And...skip, And then skip down again; pronounce a text, 410 Cry-hem ! and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with... | |
| Charles Dent Bell - 1889 - 378 Seiten
...gesture. Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his aweful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And...as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Cowper. IT was soon after our excursion to the farm-house that my mother took us all to a church in... | |
| Mary Jane Haw - 1889 - 258 Seiten
...gesture ; much impressed, Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it, too ; affectionate in look And...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men." "A fine description, Miss Nora, and very applicable to Mr. Herbert Lindsay; but I'll tell you what... | |
| Charles Carroll Albertson - 1890 - 328 Seiten
...gesture ; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And...as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. WILLIAM COWPER. O ! if you could have seen Paul preach, you would not have gone away from the sermon... | |
| William Cowper - 1891 - 204 Seiten
...gesture; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look And...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, Aud then skip... | |
| Chiel amang the classes and the masses takin' notes - 1891 - 356 Seiten
...of sermons have been thus satirically described by William Cowper, in one of his compositions, — 1 Behold the picture ! is it like ? Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, While but a few who are ordained to preach, Dare to displease men with reproving speech; And seldom... | |
| William Bruce Robertson - 1892 - 266 Seiten
...the poopit in blads," — for Luther was no nice simpering dilettante preacher, none of your empty things that " mount the rostrum with a skip and then skip down again," that seek to save souls on the principles of grammar, rather than of gospel, and of rhetoric rather... | |
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