 | John Milton - 1916 - 336 lehte
...Puritans. 49. 17. Forsake their native country. See note on 48. 28. Cf. George Herbert's well known lines: Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. soldiers fighting in Holland, and he forced strict conformity upon the Church of the Merchant Adventurers... | |
 | Stephen Graham - 1917 - 416 lehte
...serve God in peace. As the poet Herbert himself wrote, bearing witness to the sort of people who went : Religion stands on tip-toe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." "And a nice mess they made of it," said old Mr. Hampden rather irrelevantly. On Friday Trevor came... | |
 | James Edward Gillespie - 1920 - 396 lehte
...religion and system of morality could be started. In the words of George Herbert : Religion stands tip-toe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand, When height of malice and prodigies, lusts, Impudent sinning, witchcraft, and distrusts, The marks of future bane shall fill... | |
 | Thomas Goddard Wright - 1920 - 334 lehte
...in that poem: Herbert, Church Militant, 190, 191 page." He proceeds to quote twenty-four lines, from Religion stands on tiptoe in our land Ready to pass to the American strand to But lends to us, shall be our desolation. From his reference to the paging, which is the same in... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 lehte
...YOUNG. If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast. The Pulley. GEORGE HERBERT. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. The Church Militant. GEORGE HERBERT. From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where... | |
 | 1904 - 626 lehte
...English poet, was expressing the feelings of an observer of the movements of his day, when he said : Religion stands on tiptoe in our land Ready to pass to the American strand. And to apply the famous words of Stoughton in his Election Sermon, 1668, to other peoples than the... | |
 | 1920 - 594 lehte
...him his license to publish from the Lord Chancellor. "Religion stands on tip-toe in our land Readie to pass to the American strand. When height of malice, and prodigious lusts, Impudent sinning, witchcraft, and distrusts (The marks of future bane) shall fill our cup Unto the brimme, and make our... | |
 | 1879 - 1166 lehte
...them it was found that two lines were not allowed to pass without remonstrance. They were these, — Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. It is believed that they were suggested to Herbert by his intimacy with Ferrar, who, * Anderson, iii.... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch - 1975 - 264 lehte
...the Name to New-England, and at such a time, when as Divine Herbert in his Temple Prophetically sang Religion Stands on Tiptoe in our Land, Ready to pass to the AMERICAN Strand. The agency of the great God appeared, who raised up such as were fit to lead this People in this wilderness;... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 lehte
...Christian inheritance. From "The Church Militant" Religion stands on tip-toe in our land, Readie to passe to the American strand. When height of malice, and...marks of future bane) shall fill our cup Unto the brimme, and make our measure up; When Sein shall swallow Tiber, and the Thames By letting in them both... | |
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Religion stands on tip-toe in our land Ready to pass to the American strand. When height of malice and prodigious lusts, Impudent sinning, witchcrafts and distrusts (The marks of future bane) shall fill our cup Unto the... 
