The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life, Volume 1Goodrich, 1827 - English literature |
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... look upon the whole story to have been one of those fictions , not uncom- mon among authors , to blacken the memory of An orthodox queen of the sixteenth century , who laboured with might and main , conjointly with these two venerable ...
... look upon the whole story to have been one of those fictions , not uncom- mon among authors , to blacken the memory of An orthodox queen of the sixteenth century , who laboured with might and main , conjointly with these two venerable ...
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... look'd small , whate'er look'd new , Half - bound , or stitch'd in pink or blue ; Old play - bills , ASTLEY's last year's feats , And opera disputes in sheets . As these dear records meet his eyes , Ghosts of departed pleasures rise ...
... look'd small , whate'er look'd new , Half - bound , or stitch'd in pink or blue ; Old play - bills , ASTLEY's last year's feats , And opera disputes in sheets . As these dear records meet his eyes , Ghosts of departed pleasures rise ...
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... look , Then drops his eye upon his book . Triumphant he persists to go ; But gives one sigh to Rotten - row . Long as he view'd AUGUSTA's tow'rs , The sight relax'd his thinking pow'rs ; In vain he better plans revolves , While the soft ...
... look , Then drops his eye upon his book . Triumphant he persists to go ; But gives one sigh to Rotten - row . Long as he view'd AUGUSTA's tow'rs , The sight relax'd his thinking pow'rs ; In vain he better plans revolves , While the soft ...
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... look , There's no such other history book . Old authors show , nor do I wrong ' em , How tyrants shar'd the world among ' em ; And all we learn of ancient times Are human woes and human crimes . They tell us naught but dismal tales ...
... look , There's no such other history book . Old authors show , nor do I wrong ' em , How tyrants shar'd the world among ' em ; And all we learn of ancient times Are human woes and human crimes . They tell us naught but dismal tales ...
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... look'd my bride , so sweetly mild , On me her beauty's slave ; But whilst she look'd , and whilst she smil'd She sunk into the grave . Yet , O forgive an old man's care , Forgive a father's zeal ; Who fondly loves must greatly fear ...
... look'd my bride , so sweetly mild , On me her beauty's slave ; But whilst she look'd , and whilst she smil'd She sunk into the grave . Yet , O forgive an old man's care , Forgive a father's zeal ; Who fondly loves must greatly fear ...
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Page 111 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 140 - Thank God, neither I nor my family can be said to break the seventh commandment. Worthy. Here again, remember how Christ himself hath said, " Whoso looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Page 452 - I beheld, and lo ! a great multitude, which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues...
Page 401 - Give alms of thy goods, and never turn thy face from any poor man ; and then the face of the Lord shall not be turned away from thee.
Page 39 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 105 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Page 185 - ... our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...
Page 341 - They should be therefore trained with a view to these several conditions, and be furnished with a stock of ideas and principles, and qualifications and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated, as occasion may demand, to each of these respective situations. For though the arts which merely embellish life must claim admiration, yet when a man of sense comes to marry it is a companion he wants, and not an artist.
Page 277 - I have found, by a strict and diligent observation, that a due observation of the duty of this day, hath ever had joined to it a blessing upon the rest of my time ; and the week that hath been so begun, hath been blessed and prosperous to me...
Page 134 - But it was in vain to speak ; for his daughters constantly stopped his mouth by a favourite saying of theirs, which equally indicated affectation and vulgarity — that it was better to be out of the world than out of the fashion. Soon after dinner, the women went out to their several employments, and Mr. Worthy, being left alone with his guest, the following discourse took place.