 The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.  Lion - Page 4581829Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...Sterne, has been pronounced one of the most musical in our language :— " The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed...in, and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for-ever." Young writers in their attempts after harmony... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...Sterne, has been pronounced one of the most musical in our language : — " The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed...in, and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out forever." Young writers in their attempts after harmony... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...poor soul will die. He shall not die, by H n, cried my uncle Toby. 35. — The ACCUSING SPIRIT, which flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed...in ; and the RECORDING ANGEL, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever. 37. The sun looked bright the morning after,... | |
 | 1838 - 634 pages
...saying, " The accusing spirit flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, and blushed as he gave it in ; the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropt a tear upon the place, and blotted it out for ever." Few, however, of those, to whom that beautiful passage is... | |
 | 1852 - 448 pages
...inferences.— The first is from Sterne, and the last is from no matter who : " The accusing spirit, which flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed...in, and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever." " She wore a frock of blue de laine, And... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1839 - 414 pages
...view this sentence when he pen. tied the well-known passage,—" The accusing spirit which flew op to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he...— and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, draff ei a Itar upon the word, and blotted it out for ever." Works, vol. vi. p. 42. duod. I7<,¿ r... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 pages
...die'. He shall NOT die', by H n', cried my uncle Toby'. The Accusing Spirit', which flew up to Heaven*s chancery with the oath', blushed as he gave it in'; and the Recording Angel', as he wrote it down', dropped a tear upon the word', and blotted it out forever'. My uncle Toby went to his bureau', put... | |
 | 1840 - 906 pages
...help thinking that, as he himself beautifully expresses it in another place, " the accusing spirit, as he flew up to Heaven's Chancery with the oath, blushed...in, and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever 1" How much longer could we gossip on upon... | |
 | 1840 - 818 pages
...beautifully expresses it in another place, ' th accusing spirit, as he Hew up to Heaven's Clmwvry with th oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the recording angel, as h wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted : out for ever ! ' 194 195 4 auric 'for... | |
 | George Fowler - 1841 - 718 pages
...repent or ask pardon." This reminds me of Sterne's beautiful allusion to " the accusing spirit which flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed...in, and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever." At the " numaz jah," already spoken of,... | |
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