 ... distress. Her aged mother, her six little infants, and herself (expecting every hour to lie in) were actually on the point of perishing, when the gentleman (Mr. Vaughan), so gratefully mentioned in her poems, providentially heard of their distress,...  Attempts in Verse - Pàgina 112per John Jones - 1831 - 332 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1785 - 680 pàgines
...mother, all аШЛлпсе came too late ; (lie had the joy to fee it arrive, but it was a joy flie was no longer able to bear, and it was more fatal to her than famine had been. You will find our poetefs frequently alluding to th¡3 terrible circumftance, which has left a fettled... | |
 | Ann Yearsley - 1785 - 168 pàgines
...unhappy mother, all affiftance came too late ; fhe had the joy to fee it arrive, but it was a joy fhe was no longer able to bear, and it was more fatal to her than famine had been. You will find our Poetefs frequently alluding to this terrible circurnftance, which has left a fettled... | |
 | 1785 - 610 pàgines
...unhappy mother allaffiftance came too late; (he had the joy to fee it arrive, but it wat a joy (he was no longer able to bear, and it was more fatal to her thaa famine had been. You will find our poetefi frequently alloding to this terrible circumftance,... | |
 | Ann Yearsley - 1786 - 152 pàgines
...unhappy mother, all affiftance came too late ; fhe had the joy to fee it arrive, but it was a joy fhe was no longer able to bear, and it was more fatal to her than famine had been. You will find our Poetefs frequently alluding to this terrible circumflance, which has left a fettled... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 620 pàgines
...married very young to a man who is said to be honest and sober, but of a turn of mind very different from her own. Repeated losses and a numerous family,...manners, without the least affectation or pretension tension of any kind ; she neither attempted to raise my compassion by her distress, nor my admiration... | |
 | 1831 - 624 pàgines
...married very young to a man who is said to be honest and sober, but of a turn of mind very different from her own. Repeated losses and a numerous family,...manners, without the least affectation or pretension tension of any kind ; she neither attempted to raise my compassion by her distress, nor my admiration... | |
 | 1831 - 632 pàgines
...mind very different from her own. Repeated losses and a numerous family, for they had six child sen in seven years, reduced them very low ; and the rigour...manners, without the least affectation or pretension tension of any kind ; she neither attempted to raise my compassion by her distress, nor my admiration... | |
 | 1831 - 444 pàgines
...assistance came too late ; she had the joy to see it arrive, but Unas a joy she was no longer able to hear, and it was more fatal to her than famine had been." This " left a settled impression of sorrow ou Mrs. Yearsley's mind." " When 1 went to see her," Mi»s More continues, " 1 observed a perfect simplicity... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - 448 pàgines
...her children were preserved; but — (imagine, dear Madam, a scene which will not bear a detail) — for the unhappy mother, all assistance came too late...and it was more fatal to her than famine had been. You will find our poetess frequently alluding to this terrible circumstance, which has left a settled... | |
 | rev. James Gardner - 1841 - 428 pàgines
...her children were preserved : but—(imagine, dear Madam, a scene which will not bear a detail)—for the unhappy mother, all assistance came too late :...and it was more fatal to her than famine had been. You will find our poetess frequently alluding to this terrible circumstance, which has left a settled... | |
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