Chapter BED to BIBLE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Dryden.—Religio Laici, Line 140.

Then for the style, majestic and divine,
It speaks no less than God in every line:
Commanding words; whose force is still the same
As the first fiat that produced our frame.

Dryden.—Ibid. Line 152.

Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

Hervey.—Descant upon Creation.

BIBLE.—Carries her Bible tuck’d beneath his arm,
And hides his hands to keep his fingers warm.

Cowper.—Truth, Line 147.