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" Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light ; She for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise, but (though her lot be such, Toilsome and indigent) she renders... "
Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution - Page 185
by William Hazlitt - 1818 - 331 pages
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Novels: Minor works, now first collected and edited from the manuscripts

Jane Austen - 1954 - 506 pages
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Lectures on English Poets & The Spirit of the Age

William Hazlitt - 1928 - 406 pages
...at night, Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light ; She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no...treasure in the skies. O happy peasant ! Oh unhappy bard 1 His the mere tinsel, hers the rich reward j He prais'd, perhaps, for ages yet to come, She never...
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The Outlook, Volume 65

1900 - 1004 pages
...and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light ; She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding and no wit ; Receives no...Bible true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knar ; And in that charier reads with^ sparkling eyes Her title to a treasure in the skies. Oh, happy...
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The Outlook, Volume 64

1900 - 282 pages
...into the Bright family, and he never was a Catholic. SB Who wrote these lines? " Just knew, and knew no more, her Bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that charter read with wondering eyes Her title to a treasure in the skies. Happiest he of human race To whom our...
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The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 5

William Hazlitt - 1930 - 446 pages
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The Englishman and His Books in the Early Nineteenth Century

Amy Cruse - 1930 - 382 pages
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Et Cetera: A Collection &c

Augustine Birrell - 1930 - 294 pages
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Some Religious Elements in English Literature

Rose Macaulay - 1931 - 168 pages
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Minor works

Jane Austen, Robert William Chapman - 1933 - 506 pages
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1934 - 726 pages
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