...spite of the curiously self-laudatory preface to the original edition, in which Wesley declares: ; 1. In these ' hymns there is no doggerel, no botches, nothing put in to fill ' up the rhyme, no feeble expletives. 2. Here is nothing turgid ' or bombast on the one hand,...

...of Scriptural ' Christianity ? ' And again : ' In these hymns there is no ' doggerel ; no blotches ; nothing put in to patch up the ' rhyme ; no feeble expletives. . . . Here are, allow me to ' say, both the purity, the strength, and the elegance of the ' English language ;...

...are judges thereof, with all freedom and unreferve. To thefe I may fay, without offence, 1 . In thefe hymns there is no doggerel : no botches ; nothing put in to patch up the -'"™ne ; no .feeble expletives, a. Here is noirgid or bombaft, on the one hand, or low und creeping,...

...It is of his poetical compositions that Mr. John W. says, in the Preface to his large Hymn Book, ' " In these hymns there is no doggerel, no botches, nothing...rhyme, no feeble expletives. Here is nothing turgid and bombast on the one hand, or low and creeping on the other. Here are no cant expressions, no words...

...Wesley, writes such strong encomiums in his preface to his large Hymnbook. ' In these hymns,' says he, ' there is no doggerel, no botches, nothing put in to...; no feeble expletives. Here is nothing turgid or bombastic, on the one hand, or low and creeping on the other. Here are no cant expressions, no words...

...those who are judges thereof with all freedom and unreserve. To these I may say, without offence, 1 . In these hymns there is no doggerel ; no botches ;...put in to patch up the rhyme ; no feeble expletives. 2. Here is nothing turgid or bombast on the one hand, or low and creeping on the other. 3. Here are...

...writes sucli strong encomiums in his preface to his large Hvrnnbook. 'In these hymns,' says he, • there is no doggerel, no botches, nothing- put in...; no feeble expletives. Here is nothing- turgid or bombastic, on the one hand, or low and creeping- on the other. Here are ix> cant expressions, no words...

...Wesley writes such strong encomiums in his preface to his large Hymnbook. " In these hymns," says he, " there is no doggerel, no botches, nothing put in to...; no feeble expletives. Here is nothing turgid or bombastic, on the one hand, or low and creeping on the other. Here are no cant expressions, no words...

...writes such strong encomiums in his preface to his large Hymnbook. ' In these hymns,' says he, • tnere is no doggerel, no botches, nothing put in to patch...; no feeble expletives. Here is nothing turgid or bombastic, on the one hand, or low and creeping on tbe other. Here are no cant expressions, no words...

...of which, only a few are his own, and almost all the rest from ihe pen of Mr. Charles Wesley — " In these hymns, there is no doggerel, no botches,...rhyme, no feeble expletives. Here is nothing turgid or bombastic, on the one hand, or low and creeping on the other. Here are no cant expressions, no words...