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The Works of Hannah More in Eleven Volumes (12)
The Works of Hannah More in Eleven Volumes - 12 Author:Hannah More Volume: 12 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Original Publisher: T. Cadell 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 you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where y... more »ou can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: INKSTAND, MADE OF THE MULBERRY-TREE PLANTED BY SHAKSPEARE, PRESENTED TO HANNAH MORE BY GAKLUCK. They that use this world as not abusing it. 1 Car. vii. 31. CHAPTER II. Hannah's matrimonial disappointment appears to have determined her in the adoption of single life, though none could have been better adapted than herself to be the solace and ornament of the connubial hearth. She afterwards received two offers, which she declined without hesitation, but with so little offence, that the respective parties always maintained with her the most friendly relations. One of these was the well-known writer, Dr. Langhorne,-then vicar of Blagdon, with whom she long maintained a poetical and literary correspondence. The introduction took place in 1773, while she was recovering from an attack of ague, at Uphill, on the Somersetshire coast. The doctor was at the time taking his recreation at the neighbouring and better known watering-place, Weston- super-Mare. They often rode together upon the sands ; Miss More, as the custom then was, on the pillion behind her servant; and when it happened that either chanced to miss the other, a paper was placed in a cleft post near the water, generally containing some quaint remark, or a few verses./ On one of these occasions, the Doctor committed his wit and gallantry to the sand, on which he inscribed with his cane : " Along the shore Walk'd Hannah More ; Waves ! let this record last: Sooner shall ye, Proud earth and sea, Than what she writes, be past. John Langhorne." Miss More, with her riding-whip, wrote immediately ...« less