Alas for the rarity

Of Christian charity

Under the sun!

Thomas Hood (1798-1845): The Bridge of Sighs.

I thank the goodness and the grace

Which on my birth have smiled,

And made me, in these Christian days,

A happy Christian child.

Jane Taylor (1783-1824): A Child's Hymn of Praise.

I thank the goodness and the grace

Which on my birth have smiled,

And made me, in these Christian days,

A happy Christian child.

Jane Taylor (1783-1824): A Child's Hymn of Praise.

This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet.

David Garrick (1716-1779): Jupiter and Mercury.

O, I have passed a miserable night,

So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,

That, as I am a Christian faithful man,

I would not spend another such a night,

Though 't were to buy a world of happy days.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.

Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round,

And gather'd every vice on Christian ground.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Dunciad. Book iv. Line 311.

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 645.

A Christian is the highest style of man.

Edward Young (1684-1765): Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 788.