HEAVEN eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me not that, in some sad and sickening moments, my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction mere pomp of words! The Matchmaker: A Novel - Page 39by Mrs. Gordon Smythies - 1842Full view - About this book
| Laurence Sterne - British - 1802 - 284 pages
...under her poplar; and I had got almost to Lyons before I was able to cast a shade across her — • that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows...down upon his bed of straw — and it is thou who lifts him up to heaven — Eternal fountain of our feelings ! — it is here I trace thee — and this... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...I'll meet you in ike Tallies. SHA.KESFEAIIBOOK VII. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES, CHAP. I, Sensibility, 'EAR Sensibility ! source inexhausted of all that's precious...our joys , or costly in our sorrows ; thou chainest the martyr down upon his bed of slraw, and it is thou who liftest him up to heaven. Eternal fountain... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1804 - 694 pages
...which treasures heaped on treasures could never have effected ! All hail, refinement ! Dear parent of sensibility ! " Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows !" Embloom our happy land. We have long since sung an hoarse requiem to the shades of barbarism ; and... | |
| Sydney Melmoth - English prose literature - 1805 - 368 pages
...re-assembling of the scattered tribes. ; SENSIBILITY. , , Sterne. EAR Sensibility ! source inexbausted of all that's precious in our joys or costly in our...chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw — and 'tis thou who liftest him up to heaven — eternal fountain of our feelings ! — 'tis here I trace... | |
| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1805 - 430 pages
...pensive under her poplar ; and I had got almost to Lyons before I, was able to cast a shade across her. —Dear sensibility ! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sor* rows ! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his . fcted of straw—; — and it is thou who lifts... | |
| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1810 - 292 pages
...bruised thee, c-iu only bind them up for ever. JOURNEY. SENSIBILITY. DEAR Sensibility! source inexhaused of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon the bed of stray? — and 'tis thon who liftest hhn up to HEAVEN eternal fountain of our feelings !... | |
| John Murray - Sermons, American - 1812 - 426 pages
...transcribing it, as it lives in my memory. " Dear sensibility, source inexhaustible of all that is precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows ! Thou...chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw, and it is them who liftest him up to heaven ! Eternal fountain of our feelings ! -it is here I trace thee, and... | |
| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1813 - 310 pages
...under her poplar ; and I had got almost to Lyons before I was able to cast a shade across her. — Dear sensibility ! source inexhausted of all that's...chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw, — and 'tis thou who lift'st him up to heaven ! — eternal fountain of our feeling ! — 'tis here I trace... | |
| James M'Donald - Spellers - 1815 - 170 pages
....••..,--.-. SENSIBILITY. Dear Sensibility ! source inexhausted of all that's- precious to o\iir -joys, or costly in our sorrows ! thou chainest thy...martyr down upon his bed of straw, and it is thou who liftest.him up to Heaven. Eternal Fountain of our feelings ; It is here I trace thee, and this is thy... | |
| Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...or complaints. CHAPTER X. SENSIBILITY.* 1-. DEAR sensibility ! Source inexhaustible of all that is precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows ! Thou...straw, and it is thou who liftest him up to heaven ! 2. Eternal fountain of our feelings ! It is here I trace thee, and this is tky divinity which stirs... | |
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