 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1890 - 386 pages
...request ; In him his flock found nothing to condemn ; Him sectaries liked, — he never troubled them: No trifles fail'd his yielding mind to please, And...left this world of sin, More like the being that he entered in." Clever, true, and cutting. Crabbe knew the class, its excellences and its weaknesses.... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897 - 720 pages
...CHAPTER. Now nets onr vicar. They who knew him best, Proclaim his life to have been entirely rest ; Nor one so old has left this world of sin, More like the being that he entered in. CRABBB. IN one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A . It is somewhat removed... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...VILTOK.] In him his flock found nothing to condemn ; Him sectaries liked, — he never troubled them. No trifles fail'd his yielding mind to please, And all his passions sunk in early case ; К or one so old has left this world of sin, More like the being that he enter'd in.8 THE CURATE.... | |
 | Hensley Henson - 1902 - 374 pages
...flock found nothing to condemn ; Him sectaries liked, — he never troubled them ; No trifles fai1'd his yielding mind to please, And all his passions...left this world of sin, More like the being that he euter'd in."1 A master-hand has described the " typical clergyman " of the prae-Evangelical period.... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1903 - 230 pages
...flock found nothing to condemn ; Him sectaries liked — he never troubled them : No trifles failed his yielding mind to please, And all his passions...left this world of sin, More like the being that he entered in." An excellent companion sketch to that of the dilettante vicar is provided in that of the... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1903 - 230 pages
...his flock found nothing to condemn ; Him sectaries liked—he never troubled them : No trifles failed his yielding mind to please, And all his passions...one so old has left this world of sin, More like the heing that he entered in." An excellent companion sketch to that of the dilettante vicar is provided... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - 1907 - 466 pages
...flock found nothing to condemn ; Him sectaries liked — he never troubled them ; No trifles failed his yielding mind to please, And all his passions...left this world of sin More like the being that he entered in." A somewhat caustic and sarcastic sketch, and perhaps a little ill-natured, of a somewhat... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - 1907 - 470 pages
...sectaries liked — he never troubled them ; No trifles failed his yielding mind to please, And all bis passions sunk in early ease ; Nor one so old has left this world of sin More like the being that he entered in." Dr. Syntax is a good example of an old-world parson, whose biographer thus describes his... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1908 - 642 pages
...request : In him his flock found nothing to condemn ; Him sectaries liked, — he never troubled them; ' No trifles fail'd his yielding mind to please, And all his passions sunk in early rase ; j Nor one so old has left this world of sin, More like the being that he cnter'd in. THE CURATE... | |
 | Edward Carus Selwyn - 1919 - 294 pages
...whose life was longer indeed than his, but whose spirit was, I may truly say, reflected in him : " ' No one so old has left this world of sin More like the being that he entered in.' "Such indeed was Edward Carus Selwyn. May the divine light and peace be ever his ! " A... | |
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And daughters one who back'd each small request : In him his flock found nothing to condemn ; Him sectaries liked, — he never troubled them ; No trifles fail'd his yielding mind to please, And all his passions sunk in early ease ; Nor one so old has... 
