 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 ページ
...fantastic, trim, And quaint, in its deportment and attire, Can lodge a heav'nly mind — demands a doubt. He, that negotiates between God and man, As God's...when pity would inspire Pathetic exhortation ; and t" address The skittish fancy with facetious talcs, When sent with God's commission to the heart !... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 ページ
...fantastic, trim, And quaint, in its deportment and attire, Can lodge a heav'nly mind — demands a doubt. He, that negotiates between God and man, As God's...when pity would inspire Pathetic exhortation ; and t' address The skittish fancy with facetious tales, When sent with God's commission to the heart !... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 ページ
...fantastic, trim, And quaint in its deportment and attire, Can lodge a heavenly mind, — demands a doubt. He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador,...judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speeeh. 'Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul ; To break a jest, when pity would... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1839 - 564 ページ
...How can he fail of declaring them with a corresponding solemnity to his flock * " He that negociates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand...of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech, "i,is pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul ; To break a jest, when pity would inspire... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 864 ページ
...laughs off, but to digest his last night's wine at the last field-day of the Crochallan corps. Burra. Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul ; To break a je«t, when pity would inspire Pathetic exhortation ; and to' address The skittish fancy with facetious... | |
 | William Gresley - 1840 - 414 ページ
...such as abound in South and other writers of that date. Remember the often quoted lines of Covvper. " Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul ; To break a jest, where pity should inspire Pathetic exhortation, and t'address The skittish fancy with facetious tales,... | |
 | 1840 - 526 ページ
...opinion of drollery in the pulpit ? — " He that ncgociatcs between God and man As God's ambassador, thc grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech, "i'is pitiful To court a grin when you should woo a soul ; To break a jest when pity would inspire... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 456 ページ
...quaint, in its deportment and attire, Can lodge a heavenly mind — demands a doubt. He that negociates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand...you should woo a soul ; To break a jest, when pity should inspire Pathetic exhortation ; and to address The skittish fancy with facetious tales, When... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 ページ
...trim, 460 And quaint, in its deportment and attire, Can lodge a heav'nly mind — demands a doubt. He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador,...grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware 465 Of lightness in his speech. 'Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul : To break... | |
 | 1841 - 730 ページ
...Archdeacon : — He, that negociates between God and man As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Q Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. So did not Paul . . . He would not stoop To conquer those by jocular exploits Whom truth and soberness... | |
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He, that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. 'Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul ; To break a jest, when pity would inspire Pathetic... 
