The three death-cries of a perishing church [by W. Howitt, in answer to Church rates, by G. Wilkins]. From the Nottingham review, with additions and corrections1835 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 30 - ART thou the Bird whom Man loves best, The pious Bird with the scarlet breast, Our little English Robin; The Bird that comes about our doors When Autumn winds are sobbing ' Art thou the Peter of Norway Boors Their Thomas in Finland, And Russia far inland?
Pàgina 35 - Leather. This man, the first of the Quakers, and by trade a Shoemaker, was one of those to whom, under ruder or purer form, the Divine Idea of the Universe is pleased to manifest itself; and across all the hulls of Ignorance and earthly Degradation shine through, in unspeakable Awfulness, unspeakable Beauty, on their souls: who therefore are rightly accounted Prophets, God-possessed, or even Gods, as in some periods it has chanced.
Pàgina 20 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Pàgina 20 - so conclude !' But save me from the sight Of Curate-fop, half jockey and half clerk, The Tandem-driving Tommy of a town, Disdaining books, omniscient of a horse, Impatient till September comes again, Eloquent only of ' the pretty girl With whom he danced last night !' Oh ! such a thing Is worse than the dull doctor, who performs Duly his stinted task, and then to sleep, Till Sunday asks another Homily Against all innovations of the age^ — Mad Missionary zeal, and Bible Clubs...
Pàgina 31 - As oft as I hear the robin-redbreast chant it as cheerfully in September, the beginning of winter, as in March, the approach of the summer, why should not we (think I) give as cheerful entertainment to the hoary, frosty hairs of our age's winter as to the primroses of our youth's spring...
Pàgina 34 - One assertion I will venture to make, as suggested by my own experience, that there exist folios on the human understanding, and the nature of man, which would have a far juster claim to their high rank and celebrity, if in the whole huge volume there could be found as much fulness of heart and intellect, as burst forth in many a simple page of GEORGE Fox, JACOB BEHMEN, and even of Behmen's commentator, the pious and fervid WILLIAM LAW.
Pàgina 31 - I) give as cheerful entertainment to the hoary, frosty hairs of our age's winter as to the primroses of our youth's spring ? Why not to the declining sun in adversity as (like Persians) to the rising sun of prosperity ? I am sent to the ant to learn industry ; to the dove to learn innocency ; to the serpent to learn wisdom ; and why not to this bird to learn equanimity and patience, and to keep the same tenor...
Pàgina 13 - And therein were a thousand tongs empight Of sundry kindes and sundry quality ; Some were of dogs, that barked day and night ; And some of cats, that wrawling still did cry ; And some of Beares, that groynd continually ; And some of Tygres, that did seeme to gren And snar at all that ever passed by : But most of them were tongues of mortall men, Which spake reprochfully, not caring where nor when.
Pàgina 29 - VIII and Elizabeth were wiser in this respect than their successors. Henry passed an Act in 1539 called the " Bloody Statute," in which he decreed that " no women, artificers, apprentices, journeymen, husbandmen, or laborers, should read the New Testament on pain of death " ; and Elizabeth was equally averse to it. She did not wish the people to read at all lest it should make them less submissive. She disliked even...
Pàgina 35 - There exist folios on the human understanding and the nature of man, which would have a far juster claim to their high rank and celebrity, if, in the whole huge volume, there could be found as much fulness of heart and intellect as bursts forth in many a simple page of George Fox.