Friendship in Death: in Twenty Letters from the Dead to the Living: To which are Added, Letters Moral and Entertaining, in Prose and Verse. In Three PartsW. Nicholson, 1808 - 296 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xiii
... the most admirable of her poetical works . The exquisite grief and affliction Mrs Rowe felt for his 1 loss is described with such beautiful and unaffected eloquence in THE LIFE OF MRS ELIZABETH ROWE . xiii LETTER From Isabella to Serena,
... the most admirable of her poetical works . The exquisite grief and affliction Mrs Rowe felt for his 1 loss is described with such beautiful and unaffected eloquence in THE LIFE OF MRS ELIZABETH ROWE . xiii LETTER From Isabella to Serena,
الصفحة 2
... grief ; what could support the mind of man in such complicated distress ! The accomplished youth , who had all that was gentle and humane in his disposition , must have betrayed some 1 weakness , if he had not been assisted by a 2 ...
... grief ; what could support the mind of man in such complicated distress ! The accomplished youth , who had all that was gentle and humane in his disposition , must have betrayed some 1 weakness , if he had not been assisted by a 2 ...
الصفحة 5
... To the Countess he was two years old . YOUR grief is an allay to my happiness . The only sentiment my infant - state was conscious of , was a fond- ness for you ; which was then pure instinct , B 3 DEAD TO THE LIVING . 5.
... To the Countess he was two years old . YOUR grief is an allay to my happiness . The only sentiment my infant - state was conscious of , was a fond- ness for you ; which was then pure instinct , B 3 DEAD TO THE LIVING . 5.
الصفحة 6
... grief ; for I was so little acquainted with the difference of material and immaterial bodies , that I thought myself as visible to your sight as you was to mine . I was exceedingly moved at your tears ; but was ignorant why ? unless ...
... grief ; for I was so little acquainted with the difference of material and immaterial bodies , that I thought myself as visible to your sight as you was to mine . I was exceedingly moved at your tears ; but was ignorant why ? unless ...
الصفحة 8
... grief ; though a strict modesty still forced me to conceal my unhappy passion from the most intimate companion I had . After I had discovered it to you , I durst confess the guilty secret to none , but the compassionate and forgiving ...
... grief ; though a strict modesty still forced me to conceal my unhappy passion from the most intimate companion I had . After I had discovered it to you , I durst confess the guilty secret to none , but the compassionate and forgiving ...
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Adieu æther agreeable Amasia angels anguish appear beauty blessed bliss bloom breast breath brother Cassander celestial charming Cleora dance with graceful daugh dear death delight disguise distress divine earth ELIZABETH ROWE enchanting eternal ev'ry eyes fair fatal father fear flowery folly gave gentle give gloomy glorious glory grace grief groves guilt guiltless happiness heart Heaven heavenly height honour hopes horror human imagination immortal infamy innocent Lady Jane Grey LETTER libertine live look Lord Lord Guilford Dudley lute Madam marriage mind mortal nature never noble numbered obligations passion peace piety pleasure racter realms of joy reason reproach retirement retreat ROSALINDA sacred scenes secret shades sincere sister skies smile soft soon soul sparkling spirits splendour surprised tears temper tender thee thing thou thought thousand tion triumph truth unhappy vale of Tempe vanity virtue youth
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الصفحة 136 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
الصفحة 92 - God hath showed me the path of life: in his presence is fulness of joy, and at his right hand, are pleasures for evermore.
الصفحة 286 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
الصفحة 89 - Hesperides, that seem'd Fairer then feign'd of old, or fabl'd since Of Fairy Damsels met in Forest wide By Knights of Logres, or of Lyones...
الصفحة 81 - But, oh ! which of these will answer my summons at the high Tribunal? Which of them will bail me from the arrest of death? Who will descend into the dark prison of the grave for me ? Here they all leave me, after having paid a few idle ceremonies to the breathless clay, which perhaps may lie reposed in state, while my soul, my only conscious part, may stand trembling before my JUDGE.
الصفحة 80 - I have rushed into the battle, laughed at the glittering spear, and rejoiced at the sound of the trumpet, nor had a thought of any state beyond the grave, nor the great tribunal to which I must have been summoned; " Where all my secret guilt had been reveal'd, Nor the minutest circumstance conceal'd.
الصفحة 116 - In hymns of love not ill essay 'd below ? Or dost thou warn poor mortals left behind ? A task well suited to thy gentle mind. Oh ! if sometimes thy spotless form descend, To me thy aid, thou guardian genius ! lend. When rage...
الصفحة 80 - I had a wrongapprehension of every thing in nature. I have pursued shadows, and entertained myself with dreams. I have been treasuring up dust, and sporting myself with the wind. I look back on...
الصفحة xiii - And earlier far than thine the destin'd hour of fate! Whene'er it comes, may'st thou be by, Support my sinking frame, and teach me how to die, Banish desponding nature's gloom, Make me to hope a gentle doom, And fix me all on joys to come ! With...
الصفحة 204 - ... your conduct banished my prejudices against the Christian name, and made way for the entrance of those heavenly truths to which I now assent. But this is a secret even to my own domestics ; and whether such a caution is criminal, I am not yet able to determine." With what rapture, what attention, did I listen to this language ! I blessed the accents that told me my friend, my Orramel, had embraced the Christian faith. An angel's song would have been less melodious. I looked upward, and, with...