Dean Alford on DisestablishmentSociety for the Liberation of Religion from State-Patronage and Control, 1858 - 8 pages |
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Page 3-5 - On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all Paradise before your eye. To rest, the Cushion and soft Dean invite, Who never mentions Hell to ears polite.
Page 2 - Such are thy Pictures, Kneller. Such thy Skill, That Nature seems obedient to thy Will: Comes out, and meets thy Pencil in the draught: Lives there, and wants but words to speak her thought.
Page 7 - T amuse the patient, and enhance their fees ; So from the letters of our native tongue, Put in Greek scrawls, a mystery too is sprung, Schools are erected, puzzling grammars made, And artful men...
Page 8 - All parties in thy literal sense agree, Thou perfect centre of concordancy ! Search we the records of an ancient date, Or read what modern histories relate, They all proclaim what wonders have been done By the plain letters taken as they run : " Too high the floods of passion...
Page 9 - And can these sufferings fail my heart to move? What but Thyself can now deserve my love? Such as then was, and is, Thy love to me, Such is, and shall be still, my love to Thee — To Thee, Redeemer! mercy's sacred spring!
Page 6 - ANCIENT SCULPTURE AND PAINTING NOW REMAINING IN ENGLAND, from the Earliest Period to the Reign of Henry VIII.
Page 20 - Pictorial History of England. Being a History of the People as well as a History of the Kingdom, down to the Reign of George III.
Page 8 - Typographical Antiquities; or the history of printing in England Scotland and Ireland: containing memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of the books printed by them.