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Memoirs, Correspondence, and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor
Memoirs Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor Author:Jane Taylor General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1841 Original Publisher: Jackson and Walford Subjects: History / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When... more » you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. RELIGIOUS FEELINGS -- FAMILY CUSTOMS EMPLOYMENTS AND RECREATIONS. Every means of habitual instruction, and occasional admonition, were employed by our parents to affect the hearts of their children with religious principles; and there is reason to believe that Jane very early received strong impressions of this kind. But being reserved and timid by disposition, and peculiarly distrustful of herself, little was known of the state of her mind. Her imagination, susceptible as it was in the highest degree of impressions of fear, rendered her liable, at times, to those painful emotions which belong to a conscience that is enlightened, but not fully pacified ; and these feelings, when blended with the pensiveness of her tender heart, gave a character of mournfulness and distress to her religious feelings during several years. Religious principles, if thus clouded, must always be less influential than when the mind is in a happier state; for the heart cannot be favourablyruled by fear ; yet they were not destitute of influence upon her conduct; and I find, dated in her fourteenth year, records of pious resolutions, and emphatic expressions of the sense she had of the supreme importance of the objects of christian faith. Some unfinished verses, written about this time, were evidently composed under the influence of feelings too strong to allow of the exercise of her poetic talent: -- they are interesting as records of deep and genuine religious feeling; but ...« less