 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...giving becoming or unbecoming wasting their spirits in laborious compositions of dresses to her maids. their own, would endeavour after a handsome elocution, and all those other talents that are pn per to enforce what has been penned by great masters. This would not only be more ea-y to themselves,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example ;...spirits in laborious compositions of their own, would endeavor after a handsome elocution, and all those other talents that are proper to enforce wh;il has... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example ;...spirits in laborious compositions of their own, would endeavor after a handsome elocution, and all those other talents that are proper to enforce what has... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...in the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would fo!Inw this example ; and instead of wasting their spirits in laborious compositions of their own, would endeavor after a handsome elocution, and all those other talents that are proper to enforce wh;it has... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1863 - 202 pages
...is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example, and...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by greater masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying... | |
 | 1863 - 778 pages
...instead “of wasting their spirits on laborious “compositions of their own, would en“ deavour after a handsome elocution, “and all those other talents that are “proper to enforce what has been “penned by greater masters. This “would not only be more easy to them“selves, but more... | |
 | 1863 - 522 pages
...of sermons by great divines, he adds the following observation : " I could heartily ' wish that more of our country clergy ' would follow this example, and, instead ' of wasting their spirits on laborious ' compositions of their own, would en' deavour after a handsome elocution, ' and all those... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1863 - 546 pages
...of sermons by great divines, he adds the following observation : " I could heartily ' wish that more of our country clergy ' would follow this example, and, instead ' of wasting their spirits on laborious ' compositions of their own, would en' deavour after a handsome elocution, ' and all those... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example, and...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by greater masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would fo!this example ; and instead of wasting their spirits in laborious compositions of their own, would endeavor after a handsome elocution, and all those other talents that are proper to enforce wh.it has... | |
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one of them in the pulpit. I could heartily wish/ says the Spectator, ' that some of our country clergy would follow ' this example ; and instead of wasting their spirits in laborious ' compositions of their own, would endeavour after a handsome ' elocution... 
