The Works of Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe: Letters moral & entertaining, pt. 3. Devout exercises of the heart. Poems & translations by Mr. Thomas RoweJ. & A. Arch, 1796 |
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... soft recesses ; when through a long visto the smiling forms rise in just proportion before me , I converse with dei- ties , and am charmed with the wonders of the poe- tical world . I find leisure enough for these visionary delights ...
... soft recesses ; when through a long visto the smiling forms rise in just proportion before me , I converse with dei- ties , and am charmed with the wonders of the poe- tical world . I find leisure enough for these visionary delights ...
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... soft prelidiums ❝to call me to the skies . " " I shall shortly mingle with the morning stars , " and converse with the first - born sons of Light ; " I shall enter the blissful assembly , and be num- " bered among the glittering ...
... soft prelidiums ❝to call me to the skies . " " I shall shortly mingle with the morning stars , " and converse with the first - born sons of Light ; " I shall enter the blissful assembly , and be num- " bered among the glittering ...
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... soft melodious sound Fills all the fair enchanted grove around : The noise of murm'ring currents rolling by , With sighing winds which thro ' the branches fly ; . The swan , in dying melancholy strains , In concert with the nightingale ...
... soft melodious sound Fills all the fair enchanted grove around : The noise of murm'ring currents rolling by , With sighing winds which thro ' the branches fly ; . The swan , in dying melancholy strains , In concert with the nightingale ...
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... soft recesses we prepare ; " For thee she fondly languishes all day , " And wastes her life in restless fires away ; “ These groves thy absence lately seem'd to mourn , " But all look fresh and gay at thy return . " While with these ...
... soft recesses we prepare ; " For thee she fondly languishes all day , " And wastes her life in restless fires away ; “ These groves thy absence lately seem'd to mourn , " But all look fresh and gay at thy return . " While with these ...
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... soft complaints and kind reproaches tries : Her words the coldest adamant would move , And melt the most obdurate heart to love . The youthful hero feels the kindling fires , And timely from his dang'rous foe retires ; Again he scorns ...
... soft complaints and kind reproaches tries : Her words the coldest adamant would move , And melt the most obdurate heart to love . The youthful hero feels the kindling fires , And timely from his dang'rous foe retires ; Again he scorns ...
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abandon'd adore bard beauty bleffings bleft blessed breaſt inſpire bright cauſe celestial Charm ev'ry curft daring defires delight divine dreadful e'er earth ELIZABETH ROWE eternal ev'n eyes fair fate fave fhades fhall fhould fing finks fire fix'd fkies flain flame flaves foar foes foft fongs fons foon foul ftand fung fway fyren gentle Gideon fell glories glorious grace happy hear heart Heav'n heav'nly Heedlefs hell hope horror illuftrious immortal inchanting Jephtha joys laſt lays lefs lift'ning light loft looſe Lord lyre mighty mortal mufe muſt nobleft numbers o'er oppreft paffion Pindar pity pleaſe pleaſures praife praiſe pray'rs purſue rage raiſe rapture realms reign rifing ruin ſhall ſhe ſkies ſmile soul tender Thebes thee theme themſelves thine thoſe thou art thou hast thouſand thro thy love thy pow'r thy throne tranſports trembling triumph tyrant vaft verfe verſe Virtue's waſtes Whene'er whofe wild wretched Ye ministers
Popular passages
Page 157 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Page 157 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God ; All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to His blood.
Page 77 - One shall say, I am the Lord's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
Page 157 - Come and hear, all ye that fear the Lord, and I will tell you what He has done for my soul ?
Page 157 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 117 - There, said they, is mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem, the innumerable company of Angels, and the Spirits of just men made perfect.
Page 153 - They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
Page 77 - My God ! my chief delight ? Why are my thoughts no more, by day, — With thee, no more by night \ 2 Why should my foolish passions rove ? Where can such sweetness be, As I have tasted in thy love, — . As I have found in thee...
Page 77 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect: For all his ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
Page 89 - I WAITED patiently for the Lord ; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.