 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
 | John Louis Ewell - 1904 - 462 pages
...George Herbert, than whom never soul loved the Established Church of England more passionately, wrote: Religion stands on tip-toe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. In the year 1640 the pressure began to relax, and the tide of emigration ebbed, but before that the... | |
 | George Herbert, George Herbert Palmer - 1905 - 546 pages
...return for what we have stolen from them. Religion stands on tip-toe in our land, 235 Readie to passe to the American strand. When height of malice and...marks of future bane) shall fill our cup Unto the brimme and make our measure up; When Sein shall swallow Tiber, and the Thames By letting in them both... | |
 | George Herbert - 1906 - 288 pages
...between The spacious world and Jurie to be seen. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Readie to passe to the American strand. When height of malice and...marks of future bane) shall fill our cup Unto the brimme, and make our measure up ; When Sein shall swallow Tiber, and the Thames, By letting in them... | |
 | 1912 - 718 pages
...than the quest for land, and George Herbert was expressing a deep feeling of his time when he wrote Religion stands on tiptoe in our land Ready to pass to the American strand. At the outset of no other history except at the beginning of the Hebrew migration to Canaan was the... | |
 | ALBERT CHRISTOPHER ADDISON - 1912 - 360 pages
...the proposed emigration of Cotton and other eminent ministers suggested the poet's well-known lines : Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. This too was the year when the Privy Council order was issued to stay certain ships in the Thames in... | |
 | Albert Christopher Addison - 1912 - 362 pages
...the proposed emigration of Cotton and other eminent ministers suggested the poet's well-known lines : Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. This too was the year when the Privy Council order was issued to stay certain ships in the Thames in... | |
 | George Herbert - 1913 - 364 pages
...between The spacious world and Jurie to be seen. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Readie to passe to the American strand. When height of malice and...marks of future bane — shall fill our cup Unto the brimme, and make our measure up ; When Sein shall swallow Tiber, and the Thames, By letting in them... | |
 | Bostonian Society - 1913 - 208 pages
...infinitely unable to empty this ocean." Another writer, nearer the time of the departure, puts it, " Religion stands on tiptoe in our Land, Ready to pass to the American strand ; We had our Moses and Aarons, our Zorabels and Joshuas, our Ezrahs and Nehemiahs." As has already... | |
 | Leon Albert Smith - 1914 - 528 pages
...also expected. George Herbert, in a poem entitled "The Church Militant," published in 1633, said:— "Religion stands on tiptoe in our land. Ready to pass to the American strand." —Id. Of these prophecies, some are now wholly fulfilled, and the remainder far on the road to fulfilment.... | |
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