 Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. When height of malice, and prodigious lusts, Impudent sinning, witchcrafts, and distrusts, (The marks of future bane,) shall fill our cup Unto the brim, and make our measure...  Works: Life and Letters - Page 344by William Cowper - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Charles Sumner - 1877 - 562 pages
...for the sake of religious liberty inspired the pious and poetical Herbert to famous verses : — " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." 1 The poet died in 1632, twelve years after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and only two years... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...Restore to God his due in tithe and time : A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate. GEORGE HERBERT. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. GEORGE HERBERT. The rest, far greater part, Will deem in outward rites and specious forms Religion... | |
 | 1879 - 562 pages
...them it was found that two lines were not allowed to pass without remonstrance. They were these — " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." 1 Anderson, iii. 222, 287. * Wilberforce, 161. 1 Anderson, iii. 236-241. It is believed that they were... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1879 - 834 pages
...ASPECT OF THE AMERICAN CHURCHES. August, lowed to pass without remonstrance. They were these — " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land. Ready to pass to the American strand." It is believed that they were suggested to Herbert by his intimacy with Ferrar, who, himself a member... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...YOUNG. If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast. TbtP*lity. GEORGE HERBERT. )@)A)T)C) $ &2 rke Cbvnh Militant. GEORGE 1ÜRBERT. From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 pages
...sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence. Ibid. Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. Sin. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. The Church Militant. Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him. Man. If goodness lead him not,... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth, Robert Mackenzie - 1881 - 504 pages
...JOHNSON. THOSE were dark times in England when good George Herbert, the gentle prophet, wrote : — " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." Charles I. was entering upon a course of tyranny that brought him to the block. Illegal taxes were... | |
 | George Herbert - 1881 - 604 pages
...our country's advantage. * Virginia, &c., then not long discovered. — See the " Church Militant." " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." CHAPTER XXXIII. THE PARSON'S LIBRARY. 1 HE Country Parson's library is a holy life ; for (besides the... | |
 | George Herbert - 1883 - 262 pages
...proportions be assigned To these diminishings, as is between The spacious world and Jewry to be seen. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass...fill our cup Unto the brim, and make our measure up ; THE CHURCH MILITANT. When Seine shall swallow Tiber, and the Thames By letting in them both, pollutes... | |
 | First Church of Christ (Hartford, Conn.) - 1883 - 258 pages
...his emigration, and that of Cotton and other eminent ministers suggested those well known lines : " Religion stands on tip-toe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." In the inventories at the death of some of the ministers, articles of luxury are noted, as in the will... | |
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