Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1834 - Authors, English |
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... write books ; I have got a thing and a half ready for it . Les voici . APOSTROPHE TO MERCY . ( FROM THE " COUNTRY JUSTICE , " PART III . ) O Mercy , thron'd on His eternal breast Who breath'd the savage waters into rest ; By each soft ...
... write books ; I have got a thing and a half ready for it . Les voici . APOSTROPHE TO MERCY . ( FROM THE " COUNTRY JUSTICE , " PART III . ) O Mercy , thron'd on His eternal breast Who breath'd the savage waters into rest ; By each soft ...
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... - not which of my correspondents I have been longest indebted to , but which the humour leads most to write to . After this is per- VOL . 1. - B formed , I apply a little to the laws of I. FROM A. D. 1745 TO 1779 . 25.
... - not which of my correspondents I have been longest indebted to , but which the humour leads most to write to . After this is per- VOL . 1. - B formed , I apply a little to the laws of I. FROM A. D. 1745 TO 1779 . 25.
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... write . Adieu , my dear friend , Yours at all times , From the same to the same . HANNAH MORE . That Idler , that Rambler , Dr. Johnson , was out of town , so we were deprived of the felicity of seeing him last night ; but it is a ...
... write . Adieu , my dear friend , Yours at all times , From the same to the same . HANNAH MORE . That Idler , that Rambler , Dr. Johnson , was out of town , so we were deprived of the felicity of seeing him last night ; but it is a ...
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... writer . I have told the Reynoldses how angry I am with Burke for an unhandsome paragraph on the Dean of Gloucester ... writing a slight poem , and offering it to Cadell my- self . " In a fortnight after this idea was started , she had ...
... writer . I have told the Reynoldses how angry I am with Burke for an unhandsome paragraph on the Dean of Gloucester ... writing a slight poem , and offering it to Cadell my- self . " In a fortnight after this idea was started , she had ...
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... write one whole stanza ; * but in the Rock he has not altered a word . Though a tea - visit , he staid with us till twelve . I was quite at my ease , and never once asked him to eat ( drink he never does any thing but tea ) ; while you ...
... write one whole stanza ; * but in the Rock he has not altered a word . Though a tea - visit , he staid with us till twelve . I was quite at my ease , and never once asked him to eat ( drink he never does any thing but tea ) ; while you ...
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Page 296 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 146 - I urged him to take a little wine, he replied, " I can't drink a little child, therefore I never touch it. Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult." He was very good-humoured and gay. One of the company happened to say a word about poetry, " Hush, hush," said he, " it is dangerous to say a word of poetry before her ; it is talking of the art of war before Hannibal.
Page 37 - We have paid another visit to Miss Reynolds. She had sent to engage Dr. Percy (Percy's collection, — now you know him), quite a sprightly modern, instead of a rusty antique, as I expected. He was no sooner gone, than the most amiable and obliging of women (Miss Reynolds) ordered the coach, to take us to Dr. Johnson's very own house ; yes, Abyssinia's Johnson ! Dictionary Johnson ! Rambler's, Idler's, and Irene's Johnson ! Can you picture to yourselves the palpitation of our hearts as we approached...
Page 215 - And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Page 406 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heaven.
Page 125 - Johnson was in full song, and I quarrelled with him sadly. I accused him of not having done justice to the "Allegro," and "Penseroso." He spoke disparagingly of both. I praised Lycidas, which he absolutely abused, adding, " if Milton had not written the ' Paradise Lost,' he would have only ranked among the minor poets : he was a Phidias that could cut a Colossus out of a rock, but could not cut heads out of cherry stones.
Page 277 - ask, and ye shall receive ; knock, and it shall be opened unto you ; for he that asketh, receiveth, and unto him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
Page 296 - Stephen's head in the instant of his seeing the heavens opened, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
Page 48 - The dramatis persona were, Mrs. Boscawen, Mrs. Garrick, and Miss Reynolds ; my beaux were Dr. Johnson, Dean Tucker, and last, but not least in our love, David Garrick. You know that wherever Johnson is, the confinement to the tea-table is rather a durable situation ; and it was an hour and a half before I got my enlargement.
Page 101 - I thought full as ill of it now as he did, and had only read it at an age when I was more subject to be caught by the wit, than able to discern the mischief. Of " Joseph Andrews " I declared my decided abhorrence.