 The world could not have furnished you with a present so acceptable to me as the picture which you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 5171861Full view - About this book
 | William Hayley - 1803 - 450 pages
...received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt, had the dear original...which I open my eyes in the morning. She died when I had completed my sixth year, yet I remember her well, and am an ocular witness of the great fidelity... | |
 | William Hayley - 1803 - 348 pages
...I killed it, and hung it where it is the laft object that I fee at night, and of courfe, the firft on which I open my eyes in the morning. She died when I had completed my fixth year, yet I remember her well, and am an ocular witnefs of the great fidelity... | |
 | William Hayley - 1805 - 228 pages
...received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation o: nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had the dear original presented herself to rny embraces. I kissed it, and hung it where it is the last object 1 fee at night, and of course, the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 490 pages
...received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt, had the dear original...it, and hung it where it is the last object, that I sea at night, and of course the first on which I open my eyes in the morning. She died when I had completed... | |
 | William Cowper - 1809 - 486 pages
...received it "the night before last, ani viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt, had the dear original...first on which I open my eyes in the morning. She died \\hen I com228 pleted my sixth year, ye"t I remember her well, and •m an octilar witness of the great... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 434 pages
...last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have fek had the dear original presented herself to my embraces.,...the first on which I open my eyes in the morning." The receipt of this picture gave rise to the Monody so justly a favourite with the public, when it... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 528 pages
...,1'jjeceived it the night before last, and viewed it wi tli a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had the dear original presented h<?rs<?lf to my embvages, -. . J kissed kl 'Kfi&fctl' OF TUB' f it whefe it is th% \*£4t object that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 400 pages
...received it the night before last, and viewed it with, a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had the dear original...the first on which I open my eyes in the morning." The receipt of this picture gave rise to the Monody so justly a favourite with the public, when it... | |
 | William Cowper - 1869 - 306 pages
...had the dear original presented herself tt my embraces. I kissed it and hung it where it is uie luf object that I see at night, and, of course, the first...completed my sixth year; yet I remember her well, and am occular witness of the great fidelity of the copy. I rcmemcer, too, a multitude of the maternal tendernesses... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1826 - 484 pages
...the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves mud spirit* somewhat akin to what 1 should have felt, had the dear original presented...morning. She died when I completed my sixth year ; yet 1 remember her well, and am an ocular witness of the great fidelity of the copy. I remember, too, a... | |
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