The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’....

“ The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within. ”

Karen Swallow Prior

From : Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet