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In reading this Cardiphonia set to music, we have been often reminded, not only of Herbert and Vaughan, but of Keble, a likeness of the spirit, not of the letter; for if there is any one poet who has given a bent to her mind, it is Wordsworth, the greatest of all our century's poets, both in himself and in his power of making poets."
Here he became the intimate and sympathetic friend of Cowper, in conjunction with whom he produced the Olney Hymns. In 1779 he was translated to the Rectory of St. Mary, Woolnoth, London, where he had great popularity and influence, and wrote many religious works, including Cardiphonia, and Remarkable Passages in his Own Life.
My dramatic reading and writing was curiously blended with a very considerable interest in literature of a very different sort, and with the perusal of such works as Mason on "Self-Knowledge," Newton's "Cardiphonia," and a great variety of sermons and religious essays. My mother, observing my tendency to reading on religious subjects, proposed to me to take my first communion.
Grenville, evidently regarded his 'regularly attending the service of the church every Sunday morning, even while he was in the highest offices, as something altogether exceptional in a Minister of State. His namesake, John Newton, the well-known writer of 'Cardiphonia' and the 'Olney Hymns, says that when he was Rector of St.
It may be a great city preacher; it may be a humble American or Irish revivalist; it may be The Pilgrim's Progress, or The Cardiphonia, or the Serious Call whoever or whatever it was that first arrested and awakened and turned us into the way of life, they all our days stand in a place by themselves in our grateful heart.
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