But railly now, Abednego, what is the state of our legation ?" "'I don't see nothin' ridikilous,' sais he, 'in that are expression, of Hope pitchin' her tent on a hill.

It's figurativ' and poetic, but it's within the line that divides taste from bombast.

Hope pitchin' her tent on a hill! What is there to reprehend in that ?' "Good airth and seas,' sais I, 'let's pitch Hope, and her tent, and the hill, all to Old Nick in a heap together, and talk of somethin' else.
You needn't be so perkily ashamed of havin' preached, man.

Cromwell was a great preacher all his life, but it didn't spile him as a Socdolager one bit, but rather helped him, that's a fact.

How 'av we held our footin' here ?' "'Not well, I am grieved to say,' sais he; 'not well.