 | John Donne - 1839 - 632 pages
...for his auditory, sometimes with them; always preaching to himself like an angel \ from a cloud, but in none; carrying some, as St. Paul was, to heaven...picturing a vice so as to make it ugly to those that practised it; and a virtue, so as to make it beloved even by those that loved it not; and all this... | |
 | John Donne - 1840 - 356 pages
...for his auditory, sometimes with them ; always preaching to himself like an angel from a cloud, but in none; carrying some, as St. Paul was, to heaven...picturing a vice so as to make it ugly to those that practised it, and a virtue so as to make it be beloved even by those that loved it not ; and all this... | |
 | 1842 - 796 pages
...sometimes with them ; always preach'ing to himself, like an angel from a cloud, but in none ; carry, ing some, as St. Paul was, to heaven in holy raptures,...picturing a vice so as to make it ugly to those that practised it, and a virtue so AS to make it beloved, even by those who loved it not ; and all this... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 492 pages
...for his auditory; sometimes with them; always preaching to himself, like an angel from a cloud, but in none; carrying some, as St. Paul was, to heaven...by a sacred art and courtship to amend their lives; and all this with a most particular grace and an inexpressible addition of loveliness." While the great... | |
 | William Melmoth - Christian life - 1849 - 416 pages
...for his auditory, sometimes with them, always preaching to himself like an angel from a cloud, but in none : carrying some, as St. Paul was, to heaven...picturing a vice so as to make it ugly to those that practised it, and a virtue, so as to make it beloved even by those that loved it not ; and all this... | |
 | William Holden Spilsbury - 1850 - 350 pages
...for his auditory, sometimes with them, always preaching to himself like an angel from a cloud, but in none : carrying some, as St Paul was, to heaven...a sacred art and courtship, to amend their lives." By later writers he is less warmly commended. " He was a poet of much quaintness of thought, mixed... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1852 - 174 pages
...for his auditory, sometimes with them; always preaching to himself, like an angel from a cloud, hut in none; carrying some, as St. Paul was, to heaven in holy raptures, and enticing others hy a sacred art and courtship to amend their lives : here picturing a vice so as to make it ugly to... | |
 | Edward Herbert (1st baron.) - 1853 - 534 pages
...preaching to himself, like an angel from a cloud, but in none : carrying some, as St. Paul was, to heuven in holy raptures, and enticing others by a sacred...here picturing a vice so as to make it ugly to those thiit practised it ; and a virtue so ая to make it beloved, even by those that loved it not ; and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...for his audience, sometimes will] them; always preaching to himself, like an angel from a cloud, hut in none ; carrying some, as St. Paul was, to heaven, in holy raptures, arid enticing others by a sacred art and courtship to amend their lives ; here picturing a vice so... | |
 | John Donne - Theology, Doctrinal - 1855 - 334 pages
...; carrying some, as St. Paul says, to heaven in holy raptures, and enticing others by a sacred wit and courtship to amend their lives : here picturing a vice so as to make it ugly to those that practised it, and a virtue so as to make it beloved even by those who loved it not, and all this with... | |
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... a preacher in earnest ; weeping sometimes for his auditory, sometimes with them ; always preaching to himself, like an angel from a cloud, but in none ; carrying some, as St. Paul was, to heaven in holy raptures, and enticing others by a sacred art... 
