| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 476 páginas
...Rocbejler to л Par iß CM. CTERNHOLD and Hopkins had great qualms, " When they tranflated David's Plalms, To make the heart full glad : But had it been poor David's fate, To hear thee fing, and them tranflate, By Jove, 'twould have made him mad. Rhyme lo Li/2>on. By the fame. TTERE... | |
| 1807 - 218 páginas
...mean to fleece 'cm. ON A PARISH CLERK. [LORD ROCHESTER.] STERN HOLD and Hopkins had great qualms, And they translated David's psalms, To make the heart...David's fate To hear thee sing and them translate, By Jove 'twou'd have made him mad. • EPITAPH, IN ROCHESTER CHURCH-YARD. THOUGH young she was, Her... | |
| Panorama - 1809 - 368 páginas
...Stella more. TO A WRETCHED PSALM SINGER. STERNHOLD and Hopkius had great qualms, And they trauslated David's Psalms, To make the heart full glad : But had it been poor David's fate To hear thte sing and them trauslate* By Jove *t had made him mad. RATIONAL SCEPTICISM. ST. George, to save... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...yesterday. Spoken extempore by the EarlofRockalttlt a Parish Clerk. STERNHOLD and Hopkins had great qualmi, When they translated David's Psalms, To make the heart...David's fate, To hear thee sing, and them translate, By Jove, 'twould have made him mad. Rhyme to Lislon. By the umt. HERE'S a health to Kate, Our Sovereign's... | |
| John Bull - 1825 - 782 páginas
...are." TO A PARISH-CLERK. Slernhold and Hopkins had great qualms, When they translated David's ¡h.ilms, To make the heart full glad ; But had it been poor...David's fate To hear thee sing and them translate, Bv Jove 'iHuuld have made Mai mad. PROOFS OF INSANITY. In a cause respecting a will, evidence was given... | |
| William Nugent Glascock - 1829 - 468 páginas
...well-known distich, which, as taken from the old fellow's lips, ran thus ! " Sternhold and Hopkins had greet qualms, When they translated David's Psalms, To make...glad ; But had it been poor David's fate, To hear Tom sing, and them translate, 'Gad it had driven him mad." '{ •' You're a haxing for your sea —... | |
| 1893 - 844 páginas
...passing a church with Charles II. while a parish clerk was sinning is worth quoting : — Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms, When they translated David's Psalms, To make the heart right glad : But had it been King David's fate To hear thee sing and them translate, By heavens ! 'twould... | |
| Chambers's journal - 1855 - 432 páginas
...Lord Rochester. It was on the clerk of this village-church that he wrote the following : Sternhold anj Hopkins had great qualms When they translated David's...David's fate To hear thee sing, and them translate, By Jove, 't had made him mad ! Among the natural curiosities of the Quantock range, is a fissure in... | |
| 1857 - 692 páginas
...Rochester made his extempore lines addressed to the psalmsinging clerk or sexton : — " ' Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms, When they translated...David's fate To hear thee sing, and them translate, By Jove, 'twould have drove him mad.' " The lines, as given here, contain one or two slight verbal... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1864 - 750 páginas
...are his lines, — amusing, because they are local:— Sternhold and Hopkins bad great qualms Wben they translated David's Psalms, To make the heart...David's fate To hear thee sing and them translate, By Jove 'thud made him mad. " The farmers, too, are a queer set up here," continued the curate. " A... | |
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