Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children

Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children

Watts, Isaac

Leeds: Bains, 1800. The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D. In seven volumes. Vol. 7. pp. 200-9.

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1800

George Eliot to Maria Lewis, 11 February 1841. "My head is but poorly today and I am altogether in so low and flat a key that I fear I have committed treason against the Queen's English, but provided you can tell what my sentences should have been, it is enough. The words of one of Dr. Watts' sweet little hymns have been much in my mind today -- "Twill please us to look back and see, That our whole lives were thine." Such a retrospect is indeed blissful, but how sad to look back on imperfectly used." GEL 1: 80. "The Advantages of Early Religion," Song 12 in Divine Songs for Children. (The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts, D.D., ed. Samuel Johnson, 1807, III, 67-68.)" GEL 1: 295f.

Watts, Isaac, Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57293

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