Her father is one of the leading Methodist divines of Canada, and an old friend of Dr. Goucher and myself.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
One of the two divines on whom this impresses itself had indeed "been struck by it from the first."
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Meanwhile we need only notice that the patronage of authors did not mean the patronage of learned divines or historians, but merely the patronage of men who could use their pens in political warfare, or at most of men who produced the kind of literary work appreciated in good society.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen