 | Thomas Milner - 1845 - 862 pages
...aversion to poetry. You remember what Dr. Speed says : 'So far hath schism prevail'd, they hate to see Our lines and words in couplings to agree, It looks too like abhorr'd conformity : A hymu, so soft, so smooth, so neatly drest, Savours of human learning and the beast.' And, perhaps,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 860 pages
...singing occasioned these lines from Dr. Speed — 1 So far hath schism prevailed, they hate to see Our lines and words in couplings to agree, It looks too like abhorred conformity. A hymn so soft, so smooth, so neatly dressed, Savours of human learning and the... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1875 - 362 pages
...aversion to poetry. You remember what Dr. Speed says : So .far hath schism prevailed they hate to see Our lines and words in couplings to agree, It looks too like abhorred conformity : A hymn so soft, so smooth, so neatly drest, Savours of human learning and the... | |
 | 1883 - 792 pages
...aversion to poetry. Yon remember what Dr. Speed says : "So far hat's schism prevail'd, they hate to see Our lines and words in couplings to agree; It looks too like abhorr'd conformity. A hymn, so soft, so smooth, so neatly dregs' d, Savours of human learning and the beast." Now, when your hymns... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - 1978 - 124 pages
...aversion to poetry. You remember what Dr. Speed says : "So far hath schism prevail'd, they hate to see Our lines and words in couplings to agree, It looks too like abhorr'd conformity: A hymn, so soft, so smooth, so neatly drest, Savours of human learning and the beast." And, perhaps, it has... | |
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... he would choose to make use of your style. If what I have said seems to have no weight with you, yet you cannot be ignorant what a load of scandal lies on the dissenters, only for their imagined aversion to poetry. You remember what Dr. Speed says... 