 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 页
...ruus With rapid chance from rocks to roses ; It slipped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, Anil ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. He was a shrewd and sound divine,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 292 页
...runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : It slipped from politics to puns: It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with the laws which keep The...radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep He was a. shrewd and sound divine, Of loud Dissent the mortal terror; And when, by dint of page and... | |
 | 1874 - 898 页
...; It slipped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with the laws that keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending...precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had a knack of joking ; He did not make himself a bear,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 页
...change from rocks to roses : It slipp'd from polities to puns : It pass'd from Mahomet to Moses : .Ml Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in...mortal terror ; And when, by dint of page and line, He establish'd truth, or started error, The Baptist found him far too deep : The Deist sigh'd with saving... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 页
...or the vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : 440 441 Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in...mortal terror ; And when, by dint of page and line, He establish'd truth, or started error, The Baptist found him far too deep : The Deist sigh'd with saving... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 页
...which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; He slips from politics to puns, Passes from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep The...precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses. PRAED — The Vicar. 12. All who approach him by that spell are bound, Which nobler natures weave themselves... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 页
...slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning wiih the laws which keep Tho planets in their radiant courses, And ending with...by dint of page and line, He 'stablished truth or startled error, The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow, And the lean... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 页
...runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; It supped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep The...by dint of page and line, He 'stablished truth or startled error, . The Baptist found him far too deep ; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow, And the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 页
...runs With rapid change from rocks to roses; It slipped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep The...by dint of page and line, He 'stablished truth or startled error, The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow, And the lean... | |
 | 1852 - 526 页
...With rapid change from rocks to roses; It slipped I'm. n politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets...precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. It was now pent up in narrower channels ; wide enough, however, and diversified enough to excite pilgrims... | |
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Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept... 
