 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 - Page 97by Mary Ann Kelty - 1824 - 957 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Richardson - English fiction - 1811 - 418 pages
...Habitual evils change not on a sudden : But many ilays 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 sonl, Ere Virtue can resume the place she lost: 'Tis else dissimulationHe had often read these... | |
 | Marianne Breton - 1817 - 910 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Arminianism - 1847 - 662 pages
...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." My own opinion is, that Paine really prayed. Dr.... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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. Rowe's Ulysset. Come, fair repentance, daughter... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - 1824 - 976 pages
...Habitual evils change not on a sudden ; But many dayc 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." Deeply interested by his fervent zeal, affected with his earnestness, and persuaded that... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 806 pages
...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... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...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 else dissimulation. ROWE. TRUE courage is... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - Flower language - 1839 - 284 pages
...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. ROWE. High minds of native pride and force, Most... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...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... | |
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