...Nor those in which the stage gives vice a blow, With what success let modern manners show; Nor his who, for the bane of thousands born, Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn, Skilful alike to seem devout and just, And stab religion with a sly side-thrust...

...Nor those, in which the stage gives vice a blow. With what success let modern manners show ; Nor his, who for the bane of thousands born Built God a church, and laughed his word to scorn, Skilful alike to seem devout and just, 1 And stab religion with a sly side-thrust...

...Nor those, in which the stage gives vice a blow, With what success let modern manners show ; Nor his, who for the bane of thousands born, • • Built God a church, and laughed his word to scorn, Skilful alike to seem devout and just, And stab religion with a sly side...

...Nor those in which the stage gives vice a blow, With what success let modern manners show ; Nor his, who, for the bane of thousands born, Built God a church, and' laugh'd his word to scorn, Skilful alike to seem devout and just, And stab religion with a sly side-thrust...

...Nor those, in which the stage gives vice a blow, With what success let modern manners show; Nor his, who, for the bane of thousands born, Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn, Skilful alike to seem devout and just, And stab religion with a sly side-thrust;...

...Nor those, in which the stage gives vice a blow, With what success let modern manners show; Nor his, who, for the bane of thousands born, Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn, Skilful alike to seem devout and just, And stab religion with a sly side-thrust;...

...Nor those in which the stage gives vice a blow, With what success let modern manners show ; Nor his, who for the bane of thousands born, Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn, Skilful alike to seem devout and just, And stab religion with a sly side-thrust...

...Sunday parties he reprehended, and who was known to mean the R«v. G. Wesley. I know not to whom he alludes in these lines, " Nor he who, for the bane of thousands born, " Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn." Every one knows from how accidental a circumstance his greatest original...

...of the works calculated to form the innocent recreation of the retired man, Cowper writes : Kot his, who, for the bane of thousands born, Built God a church, and Uugh'd his word to scorn. Does this refer to Voltaire ? In the third volume of Madame de Stael's posthumous...

...Smollett and Anstey. t Secondly, Mr. Campbell says in the life of Cowper (note to page 358, vol. 7-) that " he knows not to whom Cowper alludes in these...bane of thousands born, " Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn."' The Calvinist meant Voltaire, and the church of Ferney, with its inscription...