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, Ere Virtue can resume the place she lost: 'Tis... Trials: A Tale - Страница 111по Mary Ann Kelty - 1824 - 957 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Samuel Richardson - 1811 - 418 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...this is a difficulty : still pride of opinion is hard to conquer, and that pride he may have felt. " Habitual evils change not on a sudden, But many days...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 - 976 страници
...not (to borrow the language of a poet) that " Habitual evils change not on a sudden ; But many dayc must pass and many sorrows, Conscious remorse and...his earnestness, and persuaded that she was improved by his monitions, she now constantly attended the ministry of Mr. Fenton. But the impatience with which... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 страници
...intense delight Of quiet adoration, I forsook The house of worship ? Southey's Joan of Arc. REPENTANCE. Habitual evils change not on a sudden, But many days...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... | |
| Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 806 страници
...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 страници
...silent conquest of ourselves : And without that the conqueror is nought But the first slave. THOMSON. HABITUAL evils change not on a sudden, But many days...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 страници
...lascivious dream, Repentance then will follow, like the sting Placed in the adder's tail. WEBSTER. Habitual evils change not on a sudden, But many days...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... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 страници
...evils—change not on a sudden ; But many days, 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, Ere virtue—can resume the place she lostLei the tenor of my life—speak for me. 87. Good reading... | |
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