| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...scruples this instant, and be a slave- merchant, or — what you please. MRS. 104. The Three Warnings. THE tree" of deepest root is found Least willing still...therefore said, by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that, in our later stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages.... | |
| Robert Wood - 1854 - 196 pages
...with greater emphasis of meaning, be applied to the attachment of Christian relations and friends— '"The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground.' "We are very thankful, but not at all surprised, to hear of his calmness, composure, patience and hopes.... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1855 - 444 pages
...is great', I and sits enthroned on the riches of the universe, f THE THREE WARNINGS. (MRS. THRALE.) The tree of deepest root, is found | Least willing still to quit the ground* : | 'T was therefore said by ancient sages, | That love of life increas'd with years | So much, I that,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...elves, Those who would make us feel — must feel themselves. MRS. THRALE. 1740-1822. Three Warnings. The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; 'T was therefore said, by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...: Each thought some other Goblin tale Perhaps was just as true. THE THREE WARNINGS. BY MBS. PIOZZI. THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still...therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages,... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 612 pages
...on in the history of the wicked before the flood vice took a firmer and still firmer hold, just as " The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground." When man at the present time reaches his sixtieth or seventieth year, not only does the infirmity of... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...^festival of devout and joyous ^thanksgiving to the Deity. C. — THE THREE WARNINGS. FROM MRS. THRALE. 1. THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; 'T was therefore said, by ancient Usages, That love of life increas'd with years, So much, that in... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 582 pages
...PROSE AND VERSE MISCELLANIES OB ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS IN PROSE AND VERSE.* THE THREE WARNINGS. A TALE. THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still...therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years. So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp and sickness rages,... | |
| Jane Williams - 1861 - 580 pages
...another on her left hand. On the 2nd of May, 1821, she died at Clifton. THE THREE WARNINGS. A TALE. ' The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground : 'T was therefore said, by ancient sages, That love of life increas'd with years So much that in our... | |
| English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...only known now by her little tale "The Three Warnings." She died at Clifton 1822. THE THREE WARNINGS. THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still...therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages,... | |
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