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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ART of PREACHING In Imitation, of HORACES Art of Poetry. H O U L D fome ftrange poet, in his piece, affect Pope's nervous ftile, with Gibber's jokes bedeck'd j - -f, Prink Milton's true fublime with Cowley's wit; Antf jjarnifh Blackmore's Job with Swift's conceit; Would you not laugh ? Truft me, that Ptieft's as bad, Who in a ftile now grave, now raving mad, Gives the wild whims of dreaming fchoolmen vent, Whilft drowfy congregations nod aflent. a Humane capiti cervicem piflor equinam Jungere fi 'jclit, 6f iariai inducere plumat Undijue collatis menibris, ut turpiter atrum Dejinat in pifiign mulier farmofa fuperne; Speffatufn adndjji rifum teneatis, amid f Credite, Pi/anes, ifti tabula fore librttm Perjimi/erx M ' Painters k Painters and priefts, His true, great licence d.urn, And by bold ftrokes have often rofe to fame: But whales in woods, or elephants in air, Serve only to make fools and children ftare ) And in religion's name if priefts difpenfe Flat contradictions to all common fenfe ., Tho' gaplnjg bigots. Wonder and b'elieve, The wife 'tis not fo eafy to deceive. e Some take a text fublime, and fraught with fenfe, . But quickly fall into impertinence. On trifles eloquent, with great delight They ftourifh out on fome ftrange myftiek rite; Clear up the darknefs of fonts ufelcfs text, Or make fome crabbed pafiage more perplext; But to fubdue the paffions, or direft, lAtid all life's moral duties, they negiedV Moft preachers err (except the wifer few) Thhifcirig eftablifh'd doctrines, therefore true: Others, too fond of novelty and fchemes, Amufe the world with airy idle dreams: f Thus too mudh feith, or -too prefwm?ng wit Are rocks where bigots, or free-tfirift6rs --Pifftrftus atque po'fth Quidlibet audendi femper fuit...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458945242 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458945243 |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 152 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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