This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ...unheard, unseen. Such was thy Charity; no sudden start, After long sleep of passion in the heart, But steadfast principle, and in its kind Of close alliance with th' eternal mind; Trac'd easily to its true source above, To Him, whose works bespeak his nature, love. Thy bounties all were Christian, and I make ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ...unheard, unseen. Such was thy Charity; no sudden start, After long sleep of passion in the heart, But steadfast principle, and in its kind Of close alliance with th' eternal mind; Trac'd easily to its true source above, To Him, whose works bespeak his nature, love. Thy bounties all were Christian, and I make Thb record of thee for the Gospel's sake; That the incredulous themselves may see Its use and power, exemplified in thee. This simple and sublime eulogy was perfectly merited; and among the happiest actions of this truly liberal man, we may reckon his furnishing to a character so reserved, and so retired, as Cowper, the means of his enjoying the gratification of active and costly beneficence; a gratification, in which the sequestered poet had nobly indulged himself, before his acquaintance with Mr. Newton afforded him an opportunity of being concerned in distributing the private, yet extensive, bounty of an opulent and exemplary merchant., Cowper, before he quitted St. Alban's, assumed the charge of a necessitous child, to extricate him from the perils of being educated by very profligate parents; he put him to school at Huntingdon, re-/' moved him on his own removal, to Olney, and finally settled him as an apprentice at Oundle in Northamptonshire. The warm, benevolent, and chearful enthusi-asm of Mr. Newton, induced his friend Cowper to participate so abundantly in his devout occupation, that the poet's time, and thoughts, were more and more engrossed by religious pursuits. He wrote many hymns, and occasionally directed the prayei's of the poor. Where the nerves are tender, and the imagination tremblingly alive, any fervid excess in the exercise of the purest piety, may be attended with such perils to corporeal, and mental, health, as men, ...
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