Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts published Reliquiae Juveniles: Miscellaneous Thoughts in Prose and Verse, including four short poems by Lady Hertford identified by the pen-name Eusebia (meaning Piety).

Her funeral was an Anglican service, which, says Marilyn L. Brooks in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, she would not have approved of. But she was buried five days after her death in...

RL learned to read for herself before anyone was prepared to teach her. She had some books already, and when an uncle gave her a sixpence she bought a copy of Isaac Watts 's Hymns...

Their later reading drew on a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith 's History of England, Hannah More 's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts 's Doctrine of...

Their education continued at home from a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith 's History of England, Hannah More 's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts 's Doctrine...

Thereafter, Patrick Brontë educated his remaining children at home, using standard educational texts including Thomas Salmon 's A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, a condensed version of Oliver Goldsmith 's History of England,...

Elizabeth Singer (later ESR ) was courted by several men. Whether or not she was seriously pursued by either Dunton or Prior (both worldly figures), her suitors included at least two dissenting clergymen. The Rev....

Lady Hertford wrote that a certain distrust of her own judgement made her slow in the choice of a friend; but when that choice is made, my attachments are too strong to be easily broken...

Here she concludes by quoting, unascribed, eight lines of poetry by Congreve beginning When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly Fair. Such a worldly quotation seems out of character. Most of the quotations in...

Isaac Watts , in a discourse on religious humility, had argued that it was necessary for him to talk about otherwise unacceptably low and trivial happenings in order to make visible the horrors of domestic...

She heads her work with the quotation What think ye of Christ? (a question which St Matthew's Gospel reports Jesus as asking the Pharisees, arguably as a kind of trick), and adds, admiringly, others from...

The novel, which quotes Isaac Watts on its title-page and is again set in Ireland, adds gothic touches to a domestic story. While shut up in a country house the heroine reads Richardson 's Clarissa.

Amazement quotes Isaac Watts on its title-page. Its protagonist, Jocelyn, younger brother of an earl, has married a poor woman and left her behind to bear their child while he went to India to make...

These poems follow in the footsteps of Isaac Watts .

Isaac Watts wrote a poem in praise of this elegy, in whch he presents Hertford as Rowe's heir.