...deavours,) not unlikely to prove of great advantage to the public ; since, as Mr Herbert well observes, " A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice." * Blount preserves, indeed, that affectation of respect for the doctrines of the established church...

...LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR. ' These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty"— MILTON. 1 A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice." G. HERBERT. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JG & F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL...

...endeavours,) not unlikely to prove of great advantage to the public ; since, as Mr Herbert well observes, ' A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.' " > Blount preserves, indeed, that affectation of respect for the doctrines of the Established Church...

...will perhaps be more pleasing to many from their being in poetry, and thus, as he himself observes, A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. For the same cause, also, they will be more easily impressed on the mind, and, being held by the memory,...

...extensive concurrence of circumstances, a» makes it absolutely beyond the calculation of mortals ; Thou whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy...a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. but when we consider ourselves as in a state of discipline for another mode of existence, the question...

...velame degli versi straai. . He might have added the first stanza of good George Herbert's Church-Porch. Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy...a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. If 'this hope should prove chimerical, it was at least, he said, one of those pleasing and innocent...

...recollected that I should 18 Perhaps Mr. Bacon remembered the first stanza in Herbert's Plmrch Porch : Thou whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure j Hearken unto a verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure. A verse may...

...make a bait of pleasure. A verse may find him who a sermon flies. And turn delight into a sacrifice. Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure ; Hearken unto a verser, who may chance cany that of which sometimes I think 1 am most weary, along with me. Alas! it is only in the grave...

...hallowed courts you loved to tread, but has felt the full force of your own sweet words : " A VEBSE may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice ?" George Herbert, the author of "Tha Temple," a collection of sacred poems, was of a most noble, generous,...

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