 | Francis Samuel Drake - 1908 - 506 pages
...brethren, does not exhibit a very marked superiority over them in his verses upon the occasion : — " Ye Roxbury poets, keep clear of the crime Of missing...rhyme ; And you of Dorchester, your verses lengthen, . Bnt with the text's own words you will them strengthen. " The early settlers of New England always... | |
 | Walter Eliot Thwing - 1908 - 498 pages
...grumbling below." Rev. Thomas Shepard of Cambridge wrote, "Ye Roxhury poets, keep elear of the erime Of missing to give us very good rhyme; And you of Dorchester, your verses lengthen, 13ut with the text's own words you will them strengthen." Samuel Sewall, in 1718, speaking of attending... | |
 | 1921 - 1056 pages
...may be inferred from the fact that Mr. Shepard of Cambridge, thus addressed the translators : — " Ye Roxbury poets, keep clear of the crime " Of missing to give us very good rliyme; '' And you of Dorchester, your verses lengthen, " But with the text's own words you will them... | |
 | Edward Summerfield Ninde - 1921 - 488 pages
...It is said that their colleague, the Rev. Thomas Shepard, tried in vain his art of persuasion : "You Roxbury Poets, keep clear of the crime Of missing to give us a very good rhyme. And you of Dorchester your verses lengthen, And with the texts own word you will... | |
 | Ramie Targoff - 2001 - 184 pages
...jingle written by the Cambridge pastor Thomas Shepard and recorded in Cotton's Magnolia: You Roxb'ry Poets, keep clear of the Crime, Of missing to give us very good Rhime. And you of Dorchester, your Verses lengthen, But with the Texts own Words, you will them strengthen.... | |
 | Amy M. E. Morris - 2005 - 302 pages
...poetry, that Mr. Shepard, of Cambridge, on the Occasion addressed them to this purpose: You Roxb'ry Poets, keep clear of the crime, Of missing to give us very good rhime. And you of Dorchester, your verses lengthen, But with the text's own words, you will them strengthen.1"'... | |
 | Herbert F. Vetter - 2007 - 112 pages
...nor remarkably critical. Hence, Mr. Shepard, of Cambridge, addressed them with this monitory verse: Ye Roxbury poets, keep clear of the crime Of missing...you of Dorchester your verses lengthen, But with the texts own words you will them strengthen. Abiel Holmes - The History of Cambridge <^ n^~ ^l*-**"^ '... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1846 - 598 pages
...thinking that THEY ought to be among the poets. Mr. Shepherd, of Cambridge, thus addresses them : * Ye Roxbury poets, keep clear of the crime Of missing...rhyme ; And you of Dorchester, your verses lengthen, Bui with the texts' own words, you will them strengthen. It was resenting the thing in metre with a... | |
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You Roxb'ry poets, keep clear of the crime Of missing to give us very good rhime. And you of Dorchester, your verses lengthen, But with the text's own words, you will them strengthen. 
