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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... proposed this subject to my Muse , but I have hardly the vanity to hope the perfor mance will please a judgment so exact as your's . Volume II . D Moral and Entertaining . 33 From Lindamor to Lucius, with an ode on love.
... proposed this subject to my Muse , but I have hardly the vanity to hope the perfor mance will please a judgment so exact as your's . Volume II . D Moral and Entertaining . 33 From Lindamor to Lucius, with an ode on love.
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Elizabeth Singer Rowe. mance will please a judgment so exact as your's . However , it is entirely submitted to your censure , by Your most humble servant , A POEM ON Love . Assist my doubtful Muse , propitious Love , Let all my soul the ...
Elizabeth Singer Rowe. mance will please a judgment so exact as your's . However , it is entirely submitted to your censure , by Your most humble servant , A POEM ON Love . Assist my doubtful Muse , propitious Love , Let all my soul the ...
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... please my Lord exceedingly . The little waiting on I had was by Cicely , my mother's head servant ; I had no notion of the grand monde , nor the part I was to act in it . I had never seen London ; the Mall , Hyde - park , the Drawing ...
... please my Lord exceedingly . The little waiting on I had was by Cicely , my mother's head servant ; I had no notion of the grand monde , nor the part I was to act in it . I had never seen London ; the Mall , Hyde - park , the Drawing ...
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... please my Lord ; it was only with regard to him I was concerned for the figure I made in public ; the flat- tery I heard on my beauty gave me more confusion than joy ; nor could I account for the design of those addresses . I very ...
... please my Lord ; it was only with regard to him I was concerned for the figure I made in public ; the flat- tery I heard on my beauty gave me more confusion than joy ; nor could I account for the design of those addresses . I very ...
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... please you to find that your pious instructions , joined to the sanctity of your example , have not entirely been lost on , Reverend SIR , Your most obedient humble servant , AMINTOR .. Sir , LETTER XII . To the same . I D4 Moral and ...
... please you to find that your pious instructions , joined to the sanctity of your example , have not entirely been lost on , Reverend SIR , Your most obedient humble servant , AMINTOR .. Sir , LETTER XII . To the same . I D4 Moral and ...
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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.