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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... engage : Successless , but unweary'd in the strife , He still pursues thee to the verge of life ; With life compell'd his dotage to resign , The last despairing sigh he breathes is thine . The pious man directs his vows to thee , And ...
... engage : Successless , but unweary'd in the strife , He still pursues thee to the verge of life ; With life compell'd his dotage to resign , The last despairing sigh he breathes is thine . The pious man directs his vows to thee , And ...
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... engaged itself to secure me ; ❝ all events are in the hands of the Sovereign Dis- poser ; his will makes nature and necessity ; 66 46 no obstacle puts a stand to his designs , nor " obstructs the course of Providence ; perpe- tual ...
... engaged itself to secure me ; ❝ all events are in the hands of the Sovereign Dis- poser ; his will makes nature and necessity ; 66 46 no obstacle puts a stand to his designs , nor " obstructs the course of Providence ; perpe- tual ...
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... engaged my brother to bring me with him or not to follow her . I found her education had been strictly modest , and that she was unacquainted with the vicious part of the world . She is hardly fifteen , her name is Charlotte , the only ...
... engaged my brother to bring me with him or not to follow her . I found her education had been strictly modest , and that she was unacquainted with the vicious part of the world . She is hardly fifteen , her name is Charlotte , the only ...
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... engaged never to ask any future favour of her but what the nicest virtue may grant . On this condition , she consented to go to his new seat in the country ; for indeed she has no other refuge . He has kept his promise ; she lodges in ...
... engaged never to ask any future favour of her but what the nicest virtue may grant . On this condition , she consented to go to his new seat in the country ; for indeed she has no other refuge . He has kept his promise ; she lodges in ...
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... into Italy , " where his time was spent in the most dissolute " manner ; till , being unhappily engaged with a " lewd woman , in a fit of jealousy he shot himself " through the head . This tragical event made " 08 LETTERS.
... into Italy , " where his time was spent in the most dissolute " manner ; till , being unhappily engaged with a " lewd woman , in a fit of jealousy he shot himself " through the head . This tragical event made " 08 LETTERS.
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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.