 As words are but th' 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...  The Works of Hannah More - Page 174by Hannah More - 1830Full view - About this book
 | Harris Ray Greene - 1871 - 284 pages
...— Life of Charles XII. 27. " The illiterate person whom he affected to be." — Montgomery. 29. " These are her garb, not her. They but express Her form, her semblance, her appropriate dress." Hannah More. SEC. XIX.— PREDICATIVE TERM, (Con.) MOOD FORMS. 41 7. The Indicative-form is used in... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...exclamations, tender tones, fond tears, And all the graceful drapery Feeling wears. 602 SHKPHKRD. These ore ill Life's parting stream descends, And, as a moment turns its slender rill, Each admit — These lovely symbols may bs counterfeit. One, scorning life's low duties to attend. Writes... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...tears, And all the graceful drapery Feeling wears, These are her garb, not her : they but express 1 1er , admit — These lovely symbols may be counterfeit. One, scorning life's low duties to attend, Writes... | |
 | Jacob Rau Spiegel - 1879 - 310 pages
...ipse dixit need not be taken. 72. Who would not say, "If it be me," rather than, "If it be 7." 73. These are her garb, not her ; they but express Her form, her semblance, her appropriate dress. — H. More. 74. Whom do they say it is ? — Fowler E. Gram. 75. King Harrold, wounded with an arrow... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1880 - 280 pages
...Spectator. 11. It cannot be me. — Swift. 12. Whom do men say that I, the Son of man, am? — Bible. . 13. These are her garb, not her ; they but express Her form, her semblance, her appropriate dress. Hannah More. 14. That depends partly on whom the woman may be, and partly on whom the man may be. —... | |
 | Roger Lonsdale, Roger H. Lonsdale - 1990 - 612 pages
...drapery Pity wears, These are not Pity's self, they but express Her inward sufferings by their pictured dress; And these fair marks, reluctant I relate, These lovely symbols may be counterfeit. Celestial Pity! why must I deplore Thy sacred image stamped on basest ore? 40 There are, who fill with... | |
 | Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - 2004 - 332 pages
...drapery Pity wears; these are not Pity's self, they but express her inward sufferings by their pictured dress; and these fair marks, reluctant I relate, these lovely symbols may be counterfeit. (More, 'Sensibility', lines 2.71-6) The Man of Feeling was specifically parodied by Robert Fergusson's... | |
 | Janet M. Todd, Janet Todd - 2005 - 516 pages
...her poem is given over to complaining of the fashion for self-indulgent displays of fine feelings. There are, who fill with brilliant plaints the page, If a poor linnet meets the gunner's rage: There are, who for a dying fawn display The tenderest anguish in the sweetest... | |
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