 CHARACTER. 0 born to soothe distress and lighten care, Lively as soft, and innocent as fair! Blest with that sweet simplicity of thought So rarely found, and never to be taught; Of winning speech, endearing, artless, kind, The loveliest pattern of a female...  Ellen Clifford: Or the Genius of Reform - Seite 39von Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1839 - 142 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1808 - 408 Seiten
...realms of rest, With all her native heav'n within her breast, MARIA, so pure, so good, she knows not sin, / But thinks the world without like that within...fond to bless—- Her charity almost becomes excess ; Bvit Goodness only can affection move, And love must own its origin to love, A SUBSCRIBER. IMPROMPTU.... | |
 | Anna Laetitia Barbauld - 1820 - 136 Seiten
...innocent as fair ! Blest with that sweet simplicity of thought So rarely found, and never to be taught ; Of winning speech, endearing, artless, kind, The loveliest...fond to bless, Her charity almost becomes excess. Wealth may be courted, wisdom be rever'd, And beauty prais'd, and brutal strength be fear'd ; But goodness... | |
 | 1832 - 358 Seiten
...to be taught, Of winning speech, endearing, artless, kind, The loveliest pattern of a female mind ; So pure, so good, she scarce can guess at sin, But thinks the world without like that within. REVIEW. fiitfraturr. The Aeu) Gil Bias ; or, Pedro of Pe.naJtor. By HENRY D. INCUS, Author of "Spain... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 434 Seiten
...innocent as fair ! Blest with that sweet simplicity of thought So rarely found, and never to be taught ; Of winning speech, endearing, artless, kind, The loveliest...fond to bless, Her charity almost becomes excess. Wealth may be courted, Wisdom be revered, And Beauty praised, and brutal Strength be feared ; But Goodness... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 422 Seiten
...mind ; Like some fair spirit from the realms of rest, With all her native heaven within her hreast ; So pure, so good, she scarce can guess at sin, But...fond to bless, Her charity almost becomes excess. Wealth may be courted, Wisdom be revered, And Beauty praised, and brutal Strength be feared ; But Goodness... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 Seiten
...innocent as fair! Blest with that sweet simplicity of thought So rarely found, and never to be taught ; ascends, Solemn and slow, as erst from Ararat, When...patriarch, who escaped the flood, Was with his household become excess. Wealth may be courted, Wisdom be revered, And Beauty praised, and brutal Strength be... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 Seiten
...innocent as fair! Blest with that sweet simplicity of thought So rarely found, and never to be taught; Of winning speech, endearing, artless, kind. The loveliest...melting tenderness, so fond to bless, Her charity almost become excess. Wealth may be courted, Wisdom be revered, And Beauty praised,and brutal Strength be... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 Seiten
...innocent as fair! Blest with that sweet simplicity of thought So rarely found, and never to be taught ; he kind To many seem'd superfluous : as, no cause...; The two extremes are equally disown'd By reason blees, Her charity almost become excess. Wealth may be courted, Wisdom be revered. And Beauty praised,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 Seiten
...innocent as fair! Blest with that sweet simplicity of thought So rarely found, and never to be taught; Of winning speech, endearing, artless, kind, The loveliest...fond to bless, Her charity almost becomes excess. Wealth may be courted, Wisdom be revered, And Beauty praised, and brutal strength be feared; But Goodness... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 792 Seiten
...innocent as fair! Blest with that sweet simplicity of thought So rarely found, and never to be taught ; rdsworth become excess. Wealth may be courted, Wisdom be revered, And Beauty praised, and brutal Strength be... | |
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