Trial of the Rev. Edward Irving, M.A.: A Cento of CriticismE. Brain, 1823 - 96 стор. |
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Сторінка 25 - I love the sex, and sometimes would reverse The tyrant's wish '' that mankind only had One neck, which he with one fell stroke might pierce:" My wish is quite as wide, but not so bad, And much more tender on the whole than fierce: It being (not now, but only while a lad) That womankind had but one rosy mouth, To kiss them all at once from North to South.
Сторінка 37 - You can tell us, perhaps, what the scriptures say of this sort of professors ? When our Redeemer commanded one of his disciples to follow him, the latter asked what his fellow disciple should do ? Most just and striking was the reproof contained in our Lord's answer— " If I will that he tarry till I come, 'what is that to thee? FOLLOW THOU ME.
Сторінка 76 - There is one man in these realms, who hath addressed himself to such a godlike life, and dwelt alone amidst the grand and lovely scenes of nature, and the deep unfathomable secrecies of human thought. Would to heaven it were allowed to others to do likewise ! And he hath been rewarded with many new cogitations of nature and of nature's God ; and he hath heard in the stillness of his retreat, many new voices of his conscious spirit — all which he hath sung in harmonious numbers. But, mark the Epicurean...
Сторінка 33 - Ms bonnet. What man, for example, unless the faculties of his mind were disturbed, could run on in such a strain as the following : — " Masterful men, or the masterful current of opinion, hath ploughed with the word of God, and the fruit has been to inveigle the mind into the exclusive admiration of some few truths, which being planted in the belief, and sacrificed to in all religious expositions and discourses, have become popular idols, which Jrovcn heresy and excommunication upon all who dare...
Сторінка 8 - Obey the Scriptures, or you perish. You may despise the honour done you by the Majesty above, you may spurn the sovereignty of Almighty God, you may revolt from creation's universal rule to bow before its Creator, and stand in momentary rebellion against his ordinances ; his overtures of mercy you may cast contempt on, and crucify afresh the Royal Personage who...
Сторінка 77 - ... recovering. — All for what? For making nature and his own bosom his home, and daring to sing of the simple but sublime truths which were revealed to him; for daring to be free in his manner of uttering genuine feeling and depicting natural beauty, and grafting thereon devout and solemn contemplations of God. Had he sent his Cottage Wanderer forth upon an excursion...
Сторінка 8 - But come at length it will, when revenge shall array herself to go forth, and anguish shall attend her, and from the wheels of their chariot ruin and dismay shall shoot far and wide among the enemies of the king, whose desolation shall not tarry, and whose destruction, as the wings of the whirlwind, shall be swift, hopeless as the conclusion of eternity, and the reversion of doom. Then around the fiery concave of the wasteful pit the clang of grief shall ring, and the flinty heart, which repelled...
Сторінка 8 - All, all shall pass away! And instead shall come the level lake that burneth, • and the solitary dungeon, and the desolate bosom, and the throes and tossings of horror and hopelessness, and the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched.
Сторінка 10 - ... on the following Sunday beggared all description. It was quite a Vanity Fair. Not one half of the assembled multitude could force their way into the sanctum sanctorum. Even we ourselves were shut out among the vulgar herd. For the entertainment of the excluded, however, there was Mr. Basil Montagu preaching peace and resignation from a window; and the once celebrated Romeo Coates acting the part of trumpeter from the steps of the church, extolling Mr. Irving as the prodigy of prodigies, and abusing...
Сторінка 90 - He throws a glancing, pleasing light over the gloomy ground of Calvinism. There is something humane in his appeals, striking in his apostrophes, graceful in his action, soothing in the tones of his voice. He is not affected and theatrical ; neither is he deeply impassioned or overpowering from the simple majesty of his subject. He is above common-place both in fancy and argument ; yet he can hardly rank as a poet or philosopher. He is a modernised covenanter, a sceptical fanatic.