Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More, Volume 4R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1835 |
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Page 350 - Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy Holy Spirit from me.
Page 239 - Shakspeare (whom you and every playhouse bill Style the divine! the matchless ! what you will,) For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite.
Page 83 - MORE'S (HANNAH) POETICAL WORKS, post Svo (pub. « St.), cloth, 3.. M.^ ^ MORE'S (HANNAH) MORAL SKETCHES OF PREVAILING OPINIONS AND MANNERS, Foreign and Domestic, with Reflections on Prayer, post Svo (pub.
Page 125 - Thou wilt show me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy, and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 165 - It shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth, and behold, he eateth ; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and behold, he drinketh ; but he awaketh, and behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite : so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
Page 403 - To those who know thee not, no words can paint, And those who know thee, know all words are faint.
Page 401 - But when did wisdom covet length of days ? Or seek its bliss in pleasure, wealth, or praise ? No : — Wisdom views with an indifferent eye All finite joys, all blessings born to die. The soul on earth is an immortal guest, Compell'd to starve at an unreal feast : A spark, which upward tends by nature's force ; A stream diverted from its parent source ; A drop, dissever'd from the boundless sea ; A moment, parted from eternity...
Page 401 - The soul on earth is an immortal guest, Compell'd to starve at an unreal feast : A spark, which upward tends by nature's force ; A stream diverted from its parent source ; A drop, dissever'd from the boundless sea ; A moment, parted from eternity ; A pilgrim panting for the rest to come ; An exile, anxious for his native home.
Page 394 - Love, jealousy, hatred, ambition, pride, revenge, are too often elevated into the rank of splendid virtues, and form a dazzling system of worldly morality, in direct contradiction to the spirit of that religion whose characteristics are " charity, meekness, peaceableness, long-suffering, gentleness, forgiveness."
Page 403 - As words are but the external marks to tell, The fair ideas in the mind that dwell, And only are of things the outward sign, And not. the things themselves they but define ; So exclamations, tender tones, fond tears, And all the graceful drapery feeling wears ; These are her garb, not her ; they but express Her form, her semblance, her appropriate dress ; And these fair marks, reluctant I relate, — These lovely symbols may be counterfeit.