Pilgrimages to English ShrinesArthur Hall, Virtue & Company, 1850 |
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... labour . He suffered from what was called the sweating distemper ; ' and while his health was much impaired by its effects , undertook a journey to Reading , to reconcile a young friend to his father . The exertion proved too much for ...
... labour . He suffered from what was called the sweating distemper ; ' and while his health was much impaired by its effects , undertook a journey to Reading , to reconcile a young friend to his father . The exertion proved too much for ...
Page 62
... labours , and their works do follow them . ' She has made posterity her debtor , for all time : her precepts and her example are alike lessons that will lead to active bene- volence and practical piety . The stone contains this ...
... labours , and their works do follow them . ' She has made posterity her debtor , for all time : her precepts and her example are alike lessons that will lead to active bene- volence and practical piety . The stone contains this ...
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... labour , with a devout and fitting attention to the more pleasing duties of a home- cherishing life ; still , those women are certainly the happiest whose occupations and pleasures are strictly of a domestic nature ; but no woman ...
... labour , with a devout and fitting attention to the more pleasing duties of a home- cherishing life ; still , those women are certainly the happiest whose occupations and pleasures are strictly of a domestic nature ; but no woman ...
Page 73
... labour he underwent , both in mind and body , mingled at times with repinings at dangers and difficulties , which read like the perils of knight - errantry . Edward , however , held his services in such esteem , that , despite his ...
... labour he underwent , both in mind and body , mingled at times with repinings at dangers and difficulties , which read like the perils of knight - errantry . Edward , however , held his services in such esteem , that , despite his ...
Page 86
... labours of a humble priest ; or , ( as in the Shelter for Foundlings , ' by the efforts of a rough sea - captain ; or , * Priscilla Wakefield . as in the Benevolent Fund , ' by the exertions 86 PILGRIMAGES TO ENGLISH SHRINES .
... labours of a humble priest ; or , ( as in the Shelter for Foundlings , ' by the efforts of a rough sea - captain ; or , * Priscilla Wakefield . as in the Benevolent Fund , ' by the exertions 86 PILGRIMAGES TO ENGLISH SHRINES .
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Page 93 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave?
Page 108 - Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
Page 11 - Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell...
Page 47 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 62 - Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labours ; and their works do follow them, Rev.
Page 236 - Here he dwelt in a family, which, for piety, order, harmony, and every virtue, was a house of God. Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages to...
Page 237 - ... for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life.
Page 288 - never drew a more ludicrous distortion, both of attitude and physiognomy, than this effect occasioned: nor was there wantin'g beside it one of those beautiful female faces which the same Hogarth, in whom the satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet...
Page 87 - Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him ? 1 St.
Page 88 - expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way.