...divine, Discharged my grasping soul; pushed me from shore And launched me into life -without an oar. No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer ; No father's guardian hand my youth maintained, Call'd forth my virtues, or from vice restrained. This passage from Savage, and our subject...

...in words of my own, which he will find upon my title-page: — ' No mother's care Shielded my infint innocence with prayer; No father's guardian hand my youth maintain'd, Call'd forth my virtues, or from vice restrain'd.' Gentle reader— farewell 1 CONCLUSION. FROM MR. THOMAS DAOOE TO MR. SAMUEL...

...poor beggar boy, if not a parish foundling, without known parents or relations." He might have said : -No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer ; No father's guardian hand my youth maintained, Called forth my virtues, and from vice restrained." SAVAOE. " He found a way to live by...

...late repentance ! always vain : Thy remedies but lull undying pain. Where shall my hope find rest ! own. C7 But, present «till, though now unseen ! When brightly shines the prosperous day, maintained, Called forth my virtues, or from vice restrained ; Is it not thine to snatch some powerful...

...poor beggar boy, if not a parish foundling, without known parents or relations." He might have said : -No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer ; No father's guardian hand my youth maintained, Called forth my virtues, and from vice restrained." SAVAGE. " He found a way to live by...

...the extraordinary emotion their guest had just displayed. CHAPTER X. Where shall my hope find rest ? No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer ; No father's guardian hand my youth maintained, Called forth my virtues, or from vice restrained. SAVAGE. IN a manufacturing village in...

...The biographer manifestly rejoices in this poem. He quotes, as an apology for Savage, the lines — No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer : No father's guardian hand my youth maintained, Called forth my virtues, or from vice restrained. The grossness of the whole matter, the...

...lines have always affected me ; they touch a chord of sorrow, most musical and most melancholy : " No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer ; No father's guardian hand my youth maintained, Called forth my virtues, or from vice restrained." If Johnson's estimate of Savage is an...

...late repentance ! always vain : Thy remedies but lull undying pain. Where shall my hope find rest 1 No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer: No father's guardian hand my youth maintained, Called forth my virtues, or from vice restrained ; Is it not thine to snatch some powerful...

...without apparent temptation." When alluding to his own miserable fate, Savage feelingly exclaims, — " No mother's care Shielded my infant Innocence with prayer ; No father's guardian hand my youth nriintained, Called forth my virtue«, or from vie« restrained/' THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF THE...