 | Samuel Richardson - 1811 - 418 pages
...often admire them; and I repeated them to him: Habitual evils change not on a sudden : But many ilays must pass, and many sorrows ; Conscious remorse and...the stubborn will, And work a second nature in the sonl, Ere Virtue can resume the place she lost: 'Tis else dissimulationHe had often read these lines,... | |
 | Marianne Breton - 1817 - 910 pages
...evils are not quickly cliang'd, But many days must pass, and many sorrows ; Conscious remorse :.<id anguish must be felt, To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, AH, I work a second nature in the soul, Ere virtue can resume tlie place she lost ; Tuebe dissimulation."... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1820 - 412 pages
...Habitual evils change not on a sudden : But many days mast pass, and many sorrows; Conscious remorse anti anguish must be felt, To curb desire, to break the...stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul, Ere virtue can resume the place she lost: 'Tis else DISSIMULATION — . He had often read these lines,... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pages
...to conquer, and that pride he may have felt. " Habitual evils change not on a sudden, But many days must pass, and many sorrows; Conscious remorse and...stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul, Ere virtue can resume the place she lost." My own opinion is, that Paine really prayed. Dr. Manley,... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - 1824 - 240 pages
...not (to borrow the language of a poet) that " Habitual evils change not on a sudden ; But many days must pass and many sorrows, Conscious remorse and...his earnestness, and persuaded that she was improved Ill by his monitions, she now constantly attended the ministry of Mr. Fenton. But the impatience with... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...of worship ? Southey's Joan of Arc. REPENTANCE. Habitual evils change not on a sudden, But many days must pass, and many sorrows : Conscious remorse and...stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul, 'Ere virtue can resume the place she lost. Rowe's Ulysset. Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - 1824 - 256 pages
...Habitual evils change not on a sudden ; Bui many days must pass ami man) sorrows, Conscious remorse anil anguish must be felt. To curb desire — to break the stubborn will, And work a second nature in llie soul." Deeply interested by his fervent zeal, affected with his earnestness, and persuaded that... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 806 pages
...have heard me often admire them, and I repeated them to him : — Conscious remorse and anguish inu.'l be felt, To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul. Ere Virtue can resume the place she lost ; 'Til else diuimulalion He had often read these lines, he... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...conqueror is nought But the first slave. THOMSON. HABITUAL evils change not on a sudden, But many days must pass and many sorrows : Conscious remorse and...stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul, Ere virtue can resume the place she lost: 'Tis else dissimulation. ROWE. TRUE courage is not the brutal... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 284 pages
...the sting Placed in the adder's tail. WEBSTER. Habitual evils change not on a sudden, But many days must pass, and many sorrows; Conscious remorse, and...stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul, Ere virtue can resume the place she lost. ROWE. High minds of native pride and force, Most deeply feel... | |
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Habitual evils change not on a sudden: But many days must pass, and many sorrows; Conscious remorse and anguish must be felt, To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul... 
