 Next in three books spoil'd human nature : Undid Creation at a jerk, And of Redemption made damn'd work. Then took his Muse at once, and dipt her Full in the middle of the Scripture. What wonders there the man, grown old, did ? Sternhold himself he out...  Miscellaneous Prose Works - Page 155by Walter Scott - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...Nature, 10 Un-did Creation at a Jerk, And of Redemption made damn'd Work. Then took his Muse at once, and dipt her Full in the middle of the Scripture. What Wonders there the Man grown old, did! 15 Sternhold himself he out-Sternholded, Made David seem so mad and freakish, All thought him just... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1899 - 710 pages
...written of Sir Kichard Blackmore's metrical version of the PsalterHe took his muse at once, and dipp'd her Full in the middle of the Scripture ; What wonders...grown old did ! Sternhold himself he out-Sternhold-ed. I have never seen Sir Kichard's ' travails in poesy,' but if he really succeeded in out-Sternholding... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1893 - 684 pages
...Richard Blackmore's metrical version of the Psalter— He took his muse at once, and dipp'd her Fall in the middle of the Scripture ; What wonders there the man grown old did 1 Stemhold himself he out-Sternhold-ed. I have never seen Sir Richard's ' travails in poesy,' but if... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 358 pages
...nature : Undid Creation at a jerk, And of Redemption made damn'd work. Then took his Muse at once, and dipt her Full in the middle of the Scripture....there the man, grown old, did ? Sternhold himself he out Sternholded. Made David seem so mad and freakish, All thought him just what thought King Achish.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 638 pages
...Richard Blackmore, among whose poetical deeds it is recorded, that He took his muse at once, and dipp'd her Full in the middle of the scripture ; What wonders...grown old did ! Sternhold himself he out-Sternhold-ed! • — and others, who have not even attained that melancholy celebrity, Miles Smyth, Richard Goodridge,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1860 - 836 pages
...was of Sir Richard's version that the lines were written : — He took his muse at once, and dipp'd her Full in the middle of the Scripture ; What wonders there the man grown old did I Sternhold himself he out-Sternhold-ed ! I860.] Difficulties of obtaining an Authorized Hymn Book.... | |
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