 Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.  The Works of William Mason - Page 434by William Mason - 1811Full view - About this book
 | George Herbert - 1660 - 444 pages
...; Hearken unto a Verier, who may I Rhyme thee to good,and make a bait ( of pleafure, i A Verfe may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice. , Beware of luft, it doth poHnte and foul Whom God in Baptiftne wafht with his ownbkxxl. It blots the... | |
 | John Rawlet - 1687 - 162 pages
...Church INTHE TOWN ^d COUNTY OF New-Caftle upon Tine. Etfrodejfe valent & deleft/ire Poeta. A verfe may find him, who a Sermon flies : And turn delight into a Sacrifice. Herfat> LICENSED. fc^/' v-,\.;<. Novemb. 22. Rolf. Midplcf. Ip^^:-.' , ,* f ' o-'V. ,>'ft ••**... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - Novelists, English - 1804 - 400 pages
...are to the young, the gay, and the healthy, the more necessary are they to be inculcated. A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. Of this nature is my design. Religion never was at so low an ebb as at present. And if my work must... | |
 | William Mason - Gardens - 1811 - 524 pages
...though nominally three, And thence call'd persons, some diversity To two attaches. All are uncrcate, 290 Yet is the Son's a generated state, Before all...true, Not here disguis'd, though clad in vesture new. PART THE SECOND. OF all the aberrations I can find In the mixt memoirs of the human mind, None so eccentric... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - English fiction - 1811 - 460 pages
...amusement: h« should be most likely to serve his purpose, remembering that of the Poet:— A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. He was resolved, therefore, to attempt something that never yet had been done. He considered that the... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Eighteenth century - 1818 - 890 pages
...body ; so ought to hare one spirit, and one of their calling to fit them for glory ; since A Verse may find him who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. All that have Mr. Milton's fine Poem, which too abruptly leaves off at our Saviour's conquest over... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1818 - 894 pages
...body ; so ought to have one spirit, and one of their calling to fit them for glory ; since A Verse may find him who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. All that have Mr. Milton's fine Poem, which too abruptly leaves off at our Saviour's conquest over... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1820 - 442 pages
...amusement, he should be most likely to serve his purpose; remembering that of the poet: A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. He was resolved therefore to attempt something that never yet had been done. He considered that the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...unlikely to prove of great advantage to the public i since, as Mr Herbert well observes, " A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice." * Blount preserves, indeed, that affectation of respect for the doctrines of the established church... | |
 | Christianity - 1822 - 792 pages
...Hearken unto a verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure. A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. 2 Beware of lust : it doth poHate and foul "Whom God in Baptism washed with his own blond. It blots... | |
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