...heart, and he probably could not, with fuch intentions, have reforted to a better ftratagem. A Vtrfe may catch him who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a facrificj. HERBERT. BRITISH CATALOGUE. POETRY. A?T. 19. 4"he Art of Preß r<v!ng Health, by John Armßnng,...

...may take root and prosper accordingly. It was the saying of the Divine Herbert, in his Poems, p. 1" A verse may catch him who a sermon flies; " And turn delight into a sacrifice." The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, in his Directions to the Clergy of his diocese, gives the...

...any long treatise on religious subjects in prose ; so just and true are those often quoted lines : ' A verse may catch him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice !"' As the original work of Mr. Prichard contains about 480 pages, Mr. Evans once thought of contracting...

...strangest and most uncouth vagaries, when we remember the hint of Herbert, that CONG. MAO. No. 53. " A verse may catch him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice." Our readers must not imagine that these appeals to the heart, through the medium of the fancy, are...

...good to be derived from sacred poetry, without thinking of the couplet of the pious George Herbert > " A verse may catch him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice." V. The following Hymn may be used % a Child before its A/orntng Prayer. !. MT Father, I thank tliee...

...mind, that several of the most valuable authors among the ancients have written in the same manner. — "A verse may catch him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice." A compendous account of the present state of church-preferments is introduced, besides a general view...

...should aim to be a teacher of spiritual and eternal truths, remembering, for his encouragement, that " A verse may catch him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice." Of these truths none can be more worthy or especial attention than the doctrine of a future and endless...

...than the same number of words in prose, I gladly welcome " the efforts of the muse ;" and then, — " A verse may catch him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice !" What I know not, may God teach me ; aye, and the weakest of his children. So prays, in Christ Jesus,...

...21, 1848." Near the conclusion of a short Preface, the Bishop gives two lines from George Herbert, A verse may catch him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. As a specimen of the metre, and the tone of feeling, under which the Poem was composed, a single stanza...

...should aim to be a teacher of spiritual and eternal truths, remembering-, for his encouragement, that " A verse may catch him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice." Of these truths none can be more worthy or especial attention than the doctrine of a future and endless...