CHAPTER VIIL 



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" how canst thou renounce the boundless store 

 Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! 

 The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, 

 The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; 

 All that the genial ray of morning gilds, 

 And all that echoes to the song of even, 

 All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, 

 And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, 

 how canst thou renounce and hope to be forgiven ! " 



Beattie. 



" 'While other men's minds seemed closing up, his (Mr Roberts's, the 

 biographer of Hannah More) day by day unclosed to the charming 

 details of natural history. Very appropriately might the words of 

 Leighton, often quoted by him, be applied to his enjoyments of the 

 objects of creation, that ' seeing and tasting God in them, he had a 

 supernatural delight in natural things.' * 



