Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More, Band 1Harper & Brothers, 1841 |
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Adelphi Adieu admiration affectionate agreeable amiable Bath believe Bishop Bishop of Chester Bishop of London Bishop Porteus blessing Boscawen Bristol called Carter charming Christian comfort compliments Cowslip Green dear friend dear madam dear sir delightful desire dined dinner Duchess Duchess of Beaufort Duchess of Portland elegant excellent faithful favour fear feel Fulham Garrick give Hampton Hannah happy hear heard heart honour hope humble JOHN NEWTON Johnson Kennicott kind Lady letter live London Lord Lord Monboddo mind Miss H Montagu morning never Newton night obliged pain party Pepys person piety pleasant pleased pleasure poem poet poor Pray present received religion Sandleford sent servant sincere sister Soame Jenyns spirit Sunday sure talents talk taste tell Teston thank thing thought tion told town truth verses Vesey Walpole week wish write yesterday
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Seite 296 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Seite 152 - When we came into the common room, we spied a fine large print of Johnson, framed and hung up that very morning, with this motto : " And is not Johnson ours, himself a host." Under which stared you in the face, " From Miss More's Sensibility.
Seite 145 - In Dr. Johnson some contrarieties very harmoniously meet ; if he has too little charity for the opinions of others, and too little patience with their faults, he has the greatest tenderness for their persons. He told me the other day, he hated to hear people whine about metaphysical distresses, when there was so much want and hunger in the world.
Seite 215 - And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Seite 406 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heaven.
Seite 277 - Therefore, *ask, and ye shall receive ; knock, and it shall be opened unto you ; for he that asketh, receiveth, and unto him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
Seite 296 - Stephen's head in the instant of his seeing the heavens opened, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
Seite 228 - Boswell tells me he is printing anecdotes of Johnson, not his life, but, as he has the vanity to call it, his pyramid. I besought his tenderness for our virtuous and most revered departed friend, and begged he would mitigate some of his asperities. He said, roughly, " He would not cut off his claws> nor make a tiger a cat, to please anybody.
Seite 39 - I had yesterday the pleasure of dining in Hill Street, Berkeley Square, at a certain Mrs. Montagu's, a name not totally obscure. The party consisted of herself, Mrs. Carter, Dr. Johnson, Solander, and Matty, Mrs. Boscawen, Miss Reynolds, and Sir Joshua (the idol of every company) ; some other persons of high rank and less wit, and your humble servant — a party that would not have disgraced the table of Loclius or of Atticus.
Seite 55 - Garrick would make me take his ticket to go to the trial of the Duchess of Kings* Dr. Stonehouse. ton ; a sight which, for beauty and magnificence, exceeded any thing which those who were never present at a coronation, or a trial by peers, can have the least notion of.