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His talents were such as soon accomplished half his wish, and ensured him celebrity he obtained opportunities of preaching in a fashionable chapel in London he was prodigiously followed his theatrical manner, perhaps, increased the effect of his eloquence upon a certain class of his auditors; but the more sober and nice-judging part of his congregation objected to this dramatic art and declamatory style, as tending to draw the attention from the doctrine to the preacher, and to obtain admiration from man more than to do honour to God.
If the manner of her two companions had not been such as to put her entirely at her ease, she would have felt strange and shy. Mr. To an older and nice-judging person, these rooms would have given no slight indications of their owner's mind it had been at work on every corner of them.
"I do not write to Henry, lest I should any way involve him in my misfortunes: he is formed to shine in the polite world, and his connexion with me might tarnish the lustre of his character in the eyes of the 'nice-judging fair. I hope, however, that he will not utterly discard me from his heart, though I cannot dance a reel.
Just in the dubious point, where with the pool Is mix'd the trembling stream, or where it boils Around the stone, or from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing games Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook: Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow-dragging some, With various hand proportion'd to their force.
To an older and nice-judging person these rooms would have given no slight indications of their owner's mind it had been at work on every corner of them. No particular fashion had been followed in anything, nor any model consulted but that which fancy had built to the mind's order.
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