 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 sider
...rapid chance from rocks to roses ; It slipped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, Anil ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. He was a shrewd and sound divine,... | |
 | 1874 - 898 sider
...; It slipped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with the laws that keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending...precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had a knack of joking ; He did not make himself a bear,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 292 sider
...rapid change from rocks to roses : It slipped from politics to puns: It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in...radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep He was a. shrewd and sound divine, Of loud Dissent the mortal terror; And when, by dint of page and... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 sider
...change from rocks to roses : It slipp'd from polities to puns : It pass'd from Mahomet to Moses : .Ml Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in...mortal terror ; And when, by dint of page and line, He establish'd truth, or started error, The Baptist found him far too deep : The Deist sigh'd with saving... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sider
...or the vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : 440 441 Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in...mortal terror ; And when, by dint of page and line, He establish'd truth, or started error, The Baptist found him far too deep : The Deist sigh'd with saving... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 sider
...With rapid change from rocks to roses ; He slips from politics to puns, Passes from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in...precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses. PRAED — The Vicar. 12. All who approach him by that spell are bound, Which nobler natures weave themselves... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 sider
...slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning wiih the laws which keep Tho planets in their radiant courses, And ending with...by dint of page and line, He 'stablished truth or startled error, The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow, And the lean... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 sider
...rapid change from rocks to roses ; It supped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in...by dint of page and line, He 'stablished truth or startled error, . The Baptist found him far too deep ; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow, And the... | |
 | 1852 - 526 sider
...rapid change from rocks to roses; It slipped I'm. n politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in...precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. It was now pent up in narrower channels ; wide enough, however, and diversified enough to excite pilgrims... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1852 - 516 sider
...Vol. iii. t Letters, Conversations, &c., of ST Coleridge, 1835. March. — voi.. xdv. NO. CCCLxxV. и Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in...precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. It was now pent up in narrower channels ; wide enough, however, and diversified enough to excite pilgrims... | |
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Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept... 
