 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 pages
...nation's care; This calls the church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. i 5o Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife, Outdo Landaffe in doctrine— -yea in life ; Let humble Allen,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...nation's care ; This calls the church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. 130 Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well ; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife, Outdo Landaffe in doctrine — yea in life : Let humble Allen,... | |
 | 1817 - 798 pages
...them was Mr. Foster, who removed to London, and was afterwards celebrated by Pope in the well known lines, " Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching; well." He has left behind him four volumes of very admirable sermons. From this period the Arian doctrines... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...which he had been translating, and then to give them his version of them, and to compare them together. Mr. Beauclerk one day repeated to Dr. Johnson Pope's...will, excel ' Ten metropolitans in preaching well.' Then asked the Doctor, " Why did Pope say this?"—JOHNSON. " Sir, be hoped it would vex somebody."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...had taken it into my head jj^'tbat it was not wholesome to study between breakfast 7j. and dinner." " Mr. Beauclerk one day repeated to Dr. Johnson, Pope's...modest Foster, if he will, excel ' Ten metropolitans in preachingwell :' Then asked the Doctor, ' Why did Pope say this ?' JOHNSON. ' Sir, he hoped it would... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...nation's care ; This calls the church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. 130 Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well ; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife, Outdo Landaffe in doctrine — yea in life ; Let humble Allen,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...nation's care; This calls the church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunderofthe laws on gin : ISO Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife. Outdo Landaffin doctrine — yea, in life: Let humble Allen, with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...dinner." ti Mr. Beauclerk one day repeated tg Dr. Johnson, 1780. Pope's lines, ^~"v — ' ' .<Etat.71. e Let modest Foster, if he will, excel ' Ten metropolitans in preaching well :' Then asked the Doctor, ' Why did Pope say this?" JOHNSON. ' Sir he hoped it would vex somebody."... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1808 - 652 pages
...bis hearer*. la the epilogue to his Satires, he has taken occasion to celebrate him in the followir.. lines: Let modest FOSTER, if he will excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well. Bishop Warburton, in his note upon this passage, has the following illnatured, priestly remark: " This... | |
 | 1808 - 702 pages
...energy to thajmportant truths he delivered. Pope has borne testimony to bis talents and his fame : — " Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well." Some lines that were circulated in that day, descriptive of tbe different manner and characters of... | |
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Mr. Beauclerk one day repeated to Dr. Johnson Pope's lines, ' Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well;' then asked the doctor, ' Why did Pope say this ? 
