...And in his " Farewell to Dean -Bourn," he applies to its inhabitants, the harsh epithets of " a rocky generation." A people currish ; churlish as the seas, And rude almost as rudest savages. " This Farewel to Dean-Bourn," observes a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, " is still remembered...

...lived, as rockie and rude, and he characterizes the inhabitants of its banks in the following terms : A people currish ; churlish as the seas ; And rude, almost, as rudest salvages. There may, however, have been some affectation in all this, for it was undoubtedly during his residence...

...lived, as rockie and rude, and he characterizes the inhabitants of its banks in the following terms : A people currish ; churlish as the seas ; And rude, almost, as rudest salvages. There may, however, have been some affectation in all this, for it was undoubtedly during his residence...

...would be plained low from out her tiny heart ! But, gentle singer, though in the aggregate we be " A people currish, churlish as the seas, And rude almost as rudest salvages" — yet have we men and women of us, who " Subscribe to tender objects " — who can turn away from...

...discover Thy men, and rocky are thy ways all over. O men, O manners; now, and ever known To be a rocky generation ; A people currish, churlish as the seas, And rude almost as rudest savages, With whom I did, and may re-sojourr. when CCCCXVIII. TO SIR CLIPSBY CHLW. Since to the country...

...would be plained low from out her tiny heart ! But, gentle singer, though in the aggregate we be " A people currish, churlish as the seas, And rude almost as rudest salvages" — yet have we men and women of us, who " Subscribe to tender objects" — who can turn away from...

...thou art ; and rockie we discover Thy men ; and rockie are thy wayes all over. 0 men, O manners ! now, and ever knowne To be a rockie generation ! A people...the seas, ,, And rude, almost, as rudest salvages ; W With whom I did, and may re-sojourne when Eockes turn to rivers, rivers turn to men. KISSING USUEIE....

...natives answered to good Robert Herrick's somewhat testy description of his own parishioners : — " A people, currish, churlish as the seas, And rude almost as rudest salvages." Indeed, the people of Damerham in those days were, intellectually and morally, even less prepared than...

...spoiled him for his clerical duties among his Devonshire parishioners. They were a rude set, he says: "A people currish, churlish as the seas, And rude almost as rudest salvages." ' Xor -was Herrick a Herbert to civilize their rude hearts, and chime religion over their hamlets by...

...parishioners whom he describes—it is to be hoped, with some amount of poetical exaggeration—as " A rocky generation, A people currish, churlish as the seas, And rude almost as rudest savages." Doubtless, however, his taste for genial society, and his love of convivial habits, made...