 | William Cowper - 1803 - 482 pages
...meditation, it might fairly be expeftcd, that he would " In riper life, exempt from public haunt t Find tongues in trees, books in the running brook*, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing." These few words of Shakespear have often appeared to me as an absolute portrait of Cowper,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1863 - 604 pages
...Divine Man. Stocks and stones will breathe for us. In a higher sense than the poet dreamed, we shall find ' tongues in trees, books in the running brook, sermons in stones, and good in everything." " (Ibid. pp. 9, 10.) In the second Sermon, after a demonstration (which must carry comfort and joy,... | |
 | Shakespeare club Sheffield - 1829 - 190 pages
...venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in its head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brook, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing." It might be expected, Gentlemen, that in my remarks to you this day, I should be more... | |
 | David Vedder - English poetry - 1832 - 236 pages
...thinly peopled country. The great poet of nature has told us- that the recluse may find " Tongues in the trees, books in the running brook ; Sermons in stones, and good in every thing." And I have no doubt that the amiable and interesting student would have been sufficiently... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1845 - 628 pages
...see the stream over which the melancholy Jacques hung and so beautifully moralized, where he found ' books in the running brook, sermons in stones, and good in everything.' Alas ! what a melancholy lecture would that have been, could he have pondered over the soil of Waterloo... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 444 pages
...perishing pages of our own poets and historians. It has been said of the reflective mind, that it " Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brook, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing." And admitting the general truth and beauty of the sentiment, we may ask, what trees can... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Authors, English - 1836 - 312 pages
...City — in the clouds ! A SEBMON FOUND IN A BROOK. And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brook, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. • SHAKSPEABK. LISTEN to yon merry bird, Warbling in the apple-tree ; Taught by the sunny... | |
 | Charles Valentine De Grice - Authors, English - 1836 - 322 pages
...City — in the clouds ! A SERMON FOUND IN A BROOK. And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brook, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. SHAKSPEARE. LISTEN to yon merry bird, Warbling in the apple-tree ; Taught by the sunny... | |
 | Fashion - 1847 - 464 pages
...bare, Memories, like holy halos, resting there. VOICES FROM NATURE. BY GEOKGE JO \ I i.MA v. " — tongues in trees, books in the running brook ; Sermons in stones, and good in everything. At You LAkt It, Act II. No. 7. NIGHT. Silent, and with a dreamlike solitude, Falls, like a deepened... | |
 | 1843 - 534 pages
...religion both more lovely, and more truly apprehended. A greater than we hath said, that man may " Find tongues in trees, books in the running brook, Sermons in stones, and good in everything." And we believe that he was right. Who that hath sat down in the cool of a summer's evening, hath not... | |
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Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brook, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 
