| John McGovern - 1880 - 762 pages
...notwithstanding, a gem in the great bugbear of Presbyterian adolescence which we want : He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of heaven To serve the Devil in. THERE now rises before us the fourth poet of the English language — the greatest bard of this century.... | |
| Joseph Parker - 1881 - 354 pages
...were serving mammon. As the poet says of you, anticipating your coming into the world, " You stole the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in." The passage no longer affrights me, I understand its glorious meaning now. It is impossible to go east... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...Counv of Time. The hypoerite had left his mask, and stood In naked ugliness. He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of heaven To serve the devil in. Pollok, Course of Time, vm. 615. In sermon style he bought, And sold, and lied ; and salutations made... | |
| Joseph Parker - 1881 - 84 pages
...name, not a present power. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He is a whited sepulchre. He has "stolen the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in." I decline his advocacy. I repudiate every title to consideration which he asserts. And Christ Himself... | |
| Jonathan Blanchard - 1881 - 296 pages
...received the plaudits of the world," but suppresses the name of its Author! thus, literally, • Stealing the livery of the Court of Heaven To serve the devil in. Why do Masonry and Odd-fellowship take their sacred lessons from the Christian Bible ? Why not from... | |
| James Moore Caller, Maria A. Ober - 1881 - 696 pages
...it was an illustration of the saying of Robert Pollock, in regard to the hypocrite, ••Who stole the livery of the Court of Heaven To serve the Devil in." Copy of La1c re/1 cc Set hick*s Will. I, Lawrence Sethick, late of Salem in New England, now being... | |
| Joseph Parker - 1881 - 332 pages
...were serving mammon. As the poet says of you, anticipating your coming into the world, " You stole the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in." The passage no longer affrights me, I understand its glorious meaning now. It is impossible to go east... | |
| Similitudes, B. S. - 1882 - 136 pages
...judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Pope. "3 Who stole the livery of the court of heaven To serve the devil in. Pollock. '"PHE stream of grief bears hard upon his youth, And bends him like a drooping flower to earth.... | |
| 1882 - 1434 pages
...his church lewd hirelings climb, u. MILTON— Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. Line 192. He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the Devil in. r. POLLOK- Bk. VHI. Line 616. Constant at Church and Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare,... | |
| Great thoughts - 1882 - 742 pages
...means to gain the love and esteem of mankind. — Addison. HYPOCRITE. — The He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of heaven To serve the devil in. — Pollok. HYPOCRITE. — A Description of the He speaks, it may be, like an angel, but he hath a... | |
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