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... quaker lady who worked the King's pic- ture so admirably in worsted . When Molly Morris of Rage- by , she was stiled the beauty of Staffordshire . She survived her husband , Dr Knowles , an eminent physician in London , many years , and ...
... quaker lady who worked the King's pic- ture so admirably in worsted . When Molly Morris of Rage- by , she was stiled the beauty of Staffordshire . She survived her husband , Dr Knowles , an eminent physician in London , many years , and ...
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... quaker . Boswell had so often spoke to me , with regret , over the ferocious , reasonless , and unchristian violence of his idol that night , it looks impartial beyond my hopes , that he requests me to arrange it . I had omitted to send ...
... quaker . Boswell had so often spoke to me , with regret , over the ferocious , reasonless , and unchristian violence of his idol that night , it looks impartial beyond my hopes , that he requests me to arrange it . I had omitted to send ...
Pagina 97
... quaker , * Miss Seward's most intimate and most deservedly va- lued friend . She died unmarried at Mansfield Woodhouse , Nottinghamshire , in 1802 , far advanced in years , VOL . I. G was frequently a visitor . Mr Spry affected wit ...
... quaker , * Miss Seward's most intimate and most deservedly va- lued friend . She died unmarried at Mansfield Woodhouse , Nottinghamshire , in 1802 , far advanced in years , VOL . I. G was frequently a visitor . Mr Spry affected wit ...
Pagina 98
... quaker - principles . She speaks with clear and graceful eloquence on every subject . Her anta- gonists were shallow theologists , and opposed only idle and pointless raillery to deep and long- studied reasoning on the precepts of ...
... quaker - principles . She speaks with clear and graceful eloquence on every subject . Her anta- gonists were shallow theologists , and opposed only idle and pointless raillery to deep and long- studied reasoning on the precepts of ...
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... quaker . Miss Harry lamented her father's displeasure , but thanked him for the pecuniary alternative , as- suring him that it included all her wishes as to fortune . Soon after she left her guardian's house , and boarded in that of Mrs ...
... quaker . Miss Harry lamented her father's displeasure , but thanked him for the pecuniary alternative , as- suring him that it included all her wishes as to fortune . Soon after she left her guardian's house , and boarded in that of Mrs ...
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Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Volume 1 Anna Seward Volledige weergave - 1811 |
Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Volume 1 Anna Seward Volledige weergave - 1811 |
Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Volume 1 Anna Seward Volledige weergave - 1811 |
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Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 218 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Pagina 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,