...Creech. Things are, like myself, not what they ought to be ; yet better than what they appear to be. " Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings, but Himself, That hideous sight — a naked human heart." Farewell ! remember me to Charlotte. RB No. LXXIV. TO MRS. M'LEHOSE. [The correspondence with Clarinda...

...death still lovely, lovelier there ; Far lovelier ! pity swells the tide of love. Night iii. Line 104. Heaven's sovereign saves all beings but himself, That hideous sight, — a naked human heart. Night iii. Line 226. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness,...

...the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it ? Young says that " Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart." All things are naked and open to Him with whom we have to do. Byron, who in one poem declares that...

...could see his own heart as it really is, he would be driven mad. The poet was right when he said — " Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself, That hideous sight, a naked human heart." Faith looks at all the ruins of the fall, and she believes that the blood of Christ will get the victory,...

...death still lovely, lovelier there ; Far lovelier ! pity swells the tide of love. Night iii. Line 104. Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart. Night iii. Line 226. 1 One woe doth tread upon another's heel, — So fast they follow. Shakespeare,...

...lightnings, boiling water, redhot ashes ! There were skeletons found even there. The poet says — " Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart." We were saved from seeing that room. We shall sing a Te Deum on our journey. We walked on through one...

...death still lovely, lovelier there ; Far lovelier ! pky swells the tide of love. Night iii. Line 104. Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart. Night iii. Line 226. 1 Compare Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act iv. Se. 7. Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave...

...when near. And sends Ihe dreadful tidings in the blow. l« this the flight of fancy ? Would it were ! ince saucy jacks so happy are in this, Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss. CXXES Fir'd is the Muse ! And let the Muse be fir'd : Who not innam'd, when wlwt he speaks, he feels. Ami...

...Creech. Things are, like myself, not what they ought to be ; yet better than what they appear to be. " Heaven's sovereign saves all beings but himself— That hideous sight— a naked human heart." Farewell ! remember me to Charlotte. R, B. XCVIIL TO MRS. DUNLOP. [The poet alludes in this letter,...

...that time. I'll be shot if I think you are quite awake now." " Perhaps not," Mr. Graham replied. " Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart." The worldly-minded old bard, who saw so clearly and rebuked so sternly his neighbours' faults, generalises...