 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 570 pages
...connecting link between the " moralities " and the regular drama. Compare Duuciad, L 98. All this may be ; the people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.1 To Gammer Gurton * if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise,1 Or say our... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 632 pages
...only these, support the crowded stage, From eldest Heywood down to Gibber's age.' All this may be ; the people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the vi ice of God. To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...heard, that, when it speaks. It ravishes all senses. t. MASSINGER— Tlie Old Laic. Act IV. be. 2. eep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Natur }. POPE— To Augustus. Bk. II. Ep. I. Line «9. A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1882 - 918 pages
...It is a sign and measure of the j;xtent to which they are ahead of the public opinion of their time. The people's voice is odd. It is, and it is not, the voice of God. With all deference to Mr. Bright, it appears to me that the principal causes of the profound divergence... | |
 | Philip Slaughter - 1883 - 146 pages
...Horace, Book ii, Ep. 1 : "Interdum vulgus rectum videt est ubi peccat, etc., added Pope's imitation : " The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not the voice of God." In conclusion, he says, that " both Horace and Pope are better expositors of truth than the author... | |
 | Philip Slaughter - 1883 - 146 pages
...Horace, Book ii, Ep. 1 : "Interdum vulgus rectum videt est ubi peccat, etc., added Pope's imitation : " The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not the voice of God." In conclusion, he says, that " both Horace and Pope are better expositors of truth than the author... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 490 pages
...immortality.' Walpole's Letters, v. 197. Pope (Imitations of Horace, II. i. 90), says : — ' All this may be ; the people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God. To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny The Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 492 pages
...immortality.' Walpole's Letters, v. 197. Pope (Imitations of Horace, II. i. 90), says : — ' All this may be ; the people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God. To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny The Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1888 - 204 pages
...8«is vv rii ian Kal aiirrl. Cp. Pope, Imit. of Horace, 11. Ep. i. 89: ' AH this may be ; the Peoples' Voice is odd. It is, and it is not, the Voice of God.' Light and reason wherewilh God illuminateth every one which Cometh into the world; — Hooker translates... | |
 | John Symons - 1889 - 208 pages
...as many other elections I have witnessed, recall to my mind those lines of a famous satirist : — the people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God. Dull (1>x*rtwmm* 0 well-V'iiilt royal town, th >u hast three crowns ; TharcTore love the Kiny. thy... | |
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All this may be ; the people's voice is odd ; It is, and it is not, the voice of God. 
