[Unitarianism is] a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian.
- Lived
- 1731–1802
- Born
- Elston Hall
- Died
- Breadsall Priory
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Known as
- writer, naturalist, physician, poet
- Era
- 19th century
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Works (4)
Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire and …
No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down …
that is as one and inversely as the other