 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...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... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1807 - 268 pages
...accidentally attended, could could not escape the profane mirth of that witty tut licentious peer. Stflrnhold and Hopkins had great qualms When they translated...David's fate To hear thee sing and them translate, It must have made him mad. !TOMACH AND HEAD.— Sedentary men, invalid*, and others olten find it difficult... | |
 | English poetry - 1807 - 218 pages
...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...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 youth could... | |
 | Panorama - Epigrams, English - 1809 - 368 pages
...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 pages
...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...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 mate, Of the Royal... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...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 - English literature - 1829 - 468 pages
...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 pages
...impromptu on 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 pages
...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...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 a limestone... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1857 - 692 pages
...mine where I have italicised the words, and I think he will admit mine is rather an improved one : " Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms, When they...fate To hear thee sing, and them translate, By Jove 't had made him mad." RW Reading. " Henley's wide-mouth1 d Sons"* (2nd S. iv. 309.) — I think the... | |
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STERNHOLD and Hopkins had great qualms, When they translated David's Psalms, To make the heart full glad : But had it been poor David's fate To hear thee sing, and them translate, By Jove, 'twould have made him mad. Rhyme to Lisbon. By the same. • HERE'S... 
