Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Volume 1 |
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... virtues and long- experienced kindness had inspired . Now , on this wide earth , no resemblance remains to me of that loved form which gave me birth , and which was of such acknowledged beauty , even in waning age . Justly do you speak ...
... virtues and long- experienced kindness had inspired . Now , on this wide earth , no resemblance remains to me of that loved form which gave me birth , and which was of such acknowledged beauty , even in waning age . Justly do you speak ...
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... virtues . By making them habitually our theme , a lost friend seems not lost ; he mingles in our conversation ; we see him ; we hear his voice ; we make our friends see and listen to him ; and we imagine that his beatified spirit hovers ...
... virtues . By making them habitually our theme , a lost friend seems not lost ; he mingles in our conversation ; we see him ; we hear his voice ; we make our friends see and listen to him ; and we imagine that his beatified spirit hovers ...
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... virtue to draw A philosopher's soul from the regions of bliss , To contemplate her genius may charm him who saw All the secret sublime of the starry abyss . Then on me , I beseech you , this charge to confer Of Seward's attendants I ...
... virtue to draw A philosopher's soul from the regions of bliss , To contemplate her genius may charm him who saw All the secret sublime of the starry abyss . Then on me , I beseech you , this charge to confer Of Seward's attendants I ...
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... virtues and graces were in their bud when I had the honour of passing a week in Lady Northesk's , Lady Marianne's , and Mrs Scott's society at Lich- field , in the house of Dr Darwin . Mournful was that pleasure , because of the fearful ...
... virtues and graces were in their bud when I had the honour of passing a week in Lady Northesk's , Lady Marianne's , and Mrs Scott's society at Lich- field , in the house of Dr Darwin . Mournful was that pleasure , because of the fearful ...
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... virtue ; -and your play - fellow , Robert , grown to an uncom- mon height , gay and blooming as a morn of sum- mer , pursues medical studies in Scotland , under happier auspices , I hope , than his poor brother . I had the misfortune to ...
... virtue ; -and your play - fellow , Robert , grown to an uncom- mon height , gay and blooming as a morn of sum- mer , pursues medical studies in Scotland , under happier auspices , I hope , than his poor brother . I had the misfortune to ...
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Page 218 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Page 360 - Thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these Thy lowest works : yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 356 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 110 - This pow'r has praise that virtue scarce can warm, Till fame supplies the universal charm. Yet Reason frowns on War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsires...
Page 19 - Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater ; sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
Page 207 - Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep.
Page 219 - Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Page 360 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 218 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 66 - he would hang a dog that read the ' Lycidas ' of Milton twice." " What, then," replied I, " must become of me, who can say it by heart ; and who often repeat it to myself with a delight, which grows by what it feeds upon ? " " Die," returned the growler,