 | 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...chainest thy martyr 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...SHA.KESFEAIIBOOK VII. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES, CHAP. I, Sensibility, 'EAR Sensibility ! source inexhausted of all that's precious in 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
...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...liftest him up to heaven — eternal fountain of our feelings ! — 'tis here I trace thee ! — and this is " thy divinity which stirs within me" — not... | |
 | Edward Barry - Conduct of life - 1806 - 244 pages
...• / • •- '.. . '. ^"Dear sensibility!" exclaims the. qelebrated Sterne, " source, inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our...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,... | |
 | Edward Barry - Conduct of life - 1806 - 208 pages
...energies of a good mind." " Dear sensibility !" exclaims the celebrated Sterne, " source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our...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,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...SHAKSPEARE. BOOK VII. DESCRIPTIVE PIBCFS. CHAP. I. SENSIBILITY. DEAR Sensibility ! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our...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,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...our forrows ! — thou chaineft thy martyr down upon his bed of ftraw, — and 'tis thou who lift'ft him up to Heaven! — Eternal fountain of our feeling!...I trace thee, — and this is thy " divinity which Jtirs zi'it/iin me ;" — not that, in fome fad and lickening moments, " my foul Jhrinks back upon... | |
 | 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,... | |
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Eternal fountain of our feeling! — '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... 
