 Sermons, with his own comick figure, from a painting by Reynolds, at the head of them ? They are in the style I think most proper for the pulpit, and show a strong imagination and a sensible heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter,...  Temple Bar - Page 5811862Full view - About this book
 | Rosenbach Company - American literature - 1913 - 168 pages
...HOGARTH. 4to, bound in red cross grained morocco by Riviere. $3000.00 "You see him often tottering upon the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of his audience." — Thomas Gray. THE ORIGINAL AGREEMENT FOR ONE OF THE GREATEST BOOKS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE!... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...most proper for the pulpit*, and shew a strong imagination and a sensible heart; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience. • Our author was of opinion, that it was the business of the Preacher rather to persuade by the power... | |
 | English essays - 1810 - 206 pages
...he puts on his cap and bells too frequently for me. Indeed if even " in the pulpit you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to .throw his periwig in the face of the congregation."-j what can you expect from him in a less sacred place? Perhaps the following may not... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...most proper for the pnlpit, and show a strong imagination and a sensible heart; but yon see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the andience. LETTER XXVII. MR. GRAY TO MR. STONEHEWER. London, June 29, 1760, THOUGH you have bad but... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...proper for the pulpit,* and show a strong imagination and a sen. sihle heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience. • Our author was of opinion, that it was the business of the preacher rather to persuade by the power... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...proper for the pulpit,* and shew a strong imagination and a sensible heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience. LETTER XXXVII. MR. GRAY TO MR. STONHEWER. London, June 29, 1760. THOUGH you have had but a melancholy... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...by the purity aud sererity of religion." .' imagination and a sensible heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience. CVIII. TO MR. STONHhWER. , I Lwdan, June 29, 1760. THOUGH you have had but a melancholy employment,... | |
 | 1821 - 724 pages
...pulpit," as they were marked by " a strong imagination and a sensible heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of his audience." Cowper has since put this mode of pulpit oratory,— which indeed was somewhat too much... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...most proper for the pulpit,* and shew a strong imagination and a sensible heart; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience. XXXVII. MR. GRAY TO MR. STONHEWER. London, June 29, 1760. THOUGH you have had buta melancholy employment,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 330 pages
...proper for the pulpit, and shew a very strong imagination and a sensible heart. But you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of his audience. Now for my season. April 10. I observed the elm putting ont. 12. That and the pear looked... | |
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