 He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had a knack of joking; He did not make himself a bear, Although he had a taste for smoking; And when religious sects ran mad, He held, in spite of all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad, It will...  Dwight's American Magazine - Page 384edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...Lines to a ringlet, or a turban, And trifles for the Morning Post, And nothings for Sylvanus Urban. He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had...will not be improved by burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...Lines to a ringlet, or a turban, And trifles for the Morning Post, And nothings for Sylvanus Urban. He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had...will not be improved by burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...Lines to a ringlet, or a turban, And trifles for the Morning Post, And nothings for Sylvanus Urban. He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had...will not be improved by burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1881 - 426 pages
...Lines to a ringlet, or a turban, And trifles for the Morning Post, And nothings for Sylvanus Urban. He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had...of all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad, MY PLEA. Ami he waa kind, ami loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, A;.'l praise the farmer's... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1881 - 316 pages
...Lines to a ringlet or a turban, And trifles for the Morning Post, And nothings for Sylvanus Urban. He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had...sects ran mad, He held, in spite of all his learning, ha t, if a man's belief is bad, It will not be improved by burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit... | |
 | Religion - 1881 - 552 pages
...affixes penalties upon views held instead of upon life led. JKev. Frederick W. Robertion (Sermons). When religious sects ran mad, He held, in spite of...belief is bad, It will not be improved by burning. WiiUhrop Mackworth Praed. Persecution appears in many shapes ; we have it at home and abroad ; sometimes... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...Th' unlettered Christian who believes in gross Plods on to heaven, and ne'er is at a loss. Drydeu. And when religious sects ran mad, He held, in spite...learning, That if a man's belief is bad, It will not be improv'd by burning. Praed. BELLES. Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel ; "Where none are beaux,... | |
 | Edward Moxon (and co.) - Readers - 1882 - 580 pages
...Lines to a ringlet or a turban, And trifles for the Morning Post, And nothings for Sylvanus Urban. He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had...of all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad, And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...takes no private road, Brit looks through nature up to nature's God. i. POPE— Essay on Man. Line 330. ow is the winter of ). PRAED — Poems of Life and Manners. Pt II. The Vicar. St. 9. "Orthodoxy, my Lord," said Bishop... | |
 | William Harvey- Jellie - Bible - 1882 - 718 pages
...sunt hceretici sacrarum of the stocks where Philpot's leg had CHAP. S XI. " And when religions sect» ran mad, He held, in spite of all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad, It will not be improred by bnrnintr." — Praed. Ver. 4. THE -WICKED л TERROR. " Such terror befell Tnllns Hostilius,... | |
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