Diary, reminiscences, and correspondence, selected and ed. by T. Sadler, Volume 1

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Page 18 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Page 227 - Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not good-night, but in some brighter clime Bid me "Good-morning.
Page 219 - The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works — not graphical or composed of letters, but of their several forms, constitutions, parts, and operations, which aptly joined together do make one word that doth express their natures.
Page 437 - God : and he that does a base thing in zeal for his friend, burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together ; it is a conspiracy, but no longer friendship.
Page 52 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Page 389 - Wordsworth defended earnestly the Church establishment. He even said he would shed his blood for it. Nor was he disconcerted by a laugh raised against him on account of his having confessed that he knew not when he had been in a church in his own country. 'All our ministers are so vile,
Page 347 - Application as grounds of criticism to the most popular works of later English Poets, those of the Living included.
Page 364 - I have written enough for half a dozen letters f unnecessarily, when to have written to half a dozen claimants is a moral (would it were a physical) necessity. But moral obligation is to me so very strong a stimulant, that in nine cases out of ten it acts as a narcotic. The blow that should rouse, stuns me.
Page 436 - I suppose you mean the greatest love, and the greatest usefulness, and the most open communication, and the noblest sufferings, and the most exemplary faithfulness, and the severest truth, and the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds, of which brave men and -women are capable.
Page 378 - Not that I have any more regard for the Established Church than for any other church, but because it is established. And if you can get your d — d religion established, I'll be for that too!

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