 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...quaint, in its deportment and attire, Can lodge an heav'nly mind— demands a doubt. He that negociates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul;... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...quaint, in its depor. ment and attire,' Can lodge an heavenly mind— demands a doubt. He that negociates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware 465 Of lightness in his speech. 'Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul;... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...quaint, in its deportment and attire, Can lodge a heav'nly mind — demands a doubt. He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. 'Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...quaint, in its deportment and attire, Can lodge an heavenly mind — demands a doubt. He, that negociates between God and man As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. 'Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 588 pages
...quaint in its deportment and attire, Can lodge a heavenly mind— demands a doubt. He that negociates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. 'Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul... | |
 | 1809 - 592 pages
...quaint in its deportment 'and attire, Can lodge a heavenly mind — demands a doubt. He that negociates between God and man. As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul ;... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 594 pages
...quaint in its deportment and attire, Can lodge a heavenly mind — demands a doubt. He that negociates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of meray, should beware Of lightness in his speech. 'Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo... | |
 | Robert Baylor Semple - Baptists - 1810 - 514 pages
...thought by fome to approach too near {p th6- theatrical, Cowper, the poet, fays, " He that negociates between God and man, • " As God's ambassador, the grand concerns " Of judgment and of mercy, should beware " Of lightness in his speech.*' Here Mr. Leland and the poet are at variance ; he does... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...quaint, in its deportment and attire, Can lodge an heav'nly mind.. ..demands a doubt. He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. 'Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul... | |
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He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul ; To break a jest, when pity would inspire Pathetic... 
