 | Peter L. Courtier - 1809 - 392 pages
...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...work ; And, with a well-bred whisper, close the scene I' .', . . . '' . o • , • . '1 • .« Few of these, whom the poet so contemptuously calls ' things,'... | |
 | John Corry - 1809 - 236 pages
...The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And thcn skip Aon n again ; pronounce a text ; Cry— -hem; and, reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen...work; And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!" Yet even these fashionable and flimsey orators are pardonable, compared with the avaricious pluralist,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...things that mount the roslrum with a skip, And then skip down again; pronounce a text; 410 Cry — hem; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen...work, And with a wellbred whisper close the scene! And most of all in man, thai ministers And serves the altar, in my soul I loath All affectation. Tis... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 212 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,...work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene I In man or woman, but far more irr man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the altar,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1812 - 390 pages
...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,...that ministers And serves the altar, in my soul I loath All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust. What!—will a man play... | |
 | Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 pages
...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...And with a well-bred whisper close the scene !" In fact, w« cannot hut urge this point, not that we wish to become censors, or to dictate what ought... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 248 pages
...The things that mount the rostnim with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen...that ministers And serves the altar, in my soul I loath A II affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn ; Object of my implacable disgust. "What!— will a man... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 pages
...a well-bred whitper close tbe tccse! -CHAPTER CXLVI. THE CLERICAL COXCOMB. In man or woman, but for most in man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the altar, in my soul I loath All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn ; Object of my implacable disgust. What ! will a man play... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...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, huddle up their work, And with a well-hred whisper close the scene '. In man or woman, hut far most in man, And most of all in man that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1819 - 306 pages
...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...my perfect scorn ; Object of my implacable disgust. Wrhat ! — will a man play tricks, will he indulge A silly fond conceit of his fair form, And just... | |
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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, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene... 
