It was impossible they could be united; and although a secret lingering of the affections over his fallen character might and did exist, it existed without any romantic expectations of miracles in his favor, or vain wishes of reformation, in which self was the prominent feeling.

Have no vain fears or vain hopes about the future; but do your duty here and now.

My tale in any place would force a tear, But calls for stronger, deeper feelings here; For whilst I tread the free-born British land, Whilst now before me crowded Britons stand, Vain, vain that glorious privilege to me, I am a slave, where all things else are free.

As his day, he trusts his strength will be; and he must not waste the strength which God has given him for to-day on vain fears or vain dreams about to-morrow.

For when the father's fond inquiry came, Cautious, she still concealed his birth and name, And feign'd a daughter born, the evil fraught With misery to avertbut vain the thought; Not many years had passed, with downy flight, Ere he, Tahmíneh's wonder and delight, With glistening eye, and youthful ardour warm, Filled her foreboding bosom with alarm.

But vain her efforts to explore his will; The frequent question he evaded still: Till on a day at length he to her came, Joy sparkling in his eyes; and said, the same Trade he would be those boys of colour were, Who danc'd so happy in the open air.

we vain men That trust out all our reputation, To rest upon the weak and yielding hand Of feeble Women!

Nor did this arise from real poverty, but from indifference, sloth, preoccupation of mind about vain earthly concerns, and often also from egotism and spiritual death; for I saw neglect of this kind in churches the pastors and congregations of which were rich, or at east tolerably well off.

Who wou'd doat upon a fond She-Fop?a vain conceited amorous Coquette.

On her return to her paternal cottage: "My father' oh, my father!" vain the cry I had no father now; no need to say "Thou art alone!."

The sublime efforts of such men as Justin and Clement to soar to a knowledge of God were perverted to vain disputations in reference to the relations between the three persons of the Godhead.

What ails my heart, that in my breast It thus unquiet lies; And that it now of needful rest Deprives my tiréd eyes? Let not vain hopes, griefs, doubts, or fears, Distemper so my mind; But cast on God thy thoughtful cares, And comfort thou shalt find.

said he: None, none of these; who can this Agla¸s be? After long Search, and vain Enquiries past, In an obscure Arcadian Vale at last, (Th' Arcadian Life has always shady been) Near Sopho's Town (which he but once had seen) This Agla¸s, who Monarchs Envy drew, Whose Happiness the Gods stood Witness to, This mighty Agla¸s was lab'ring found, With his own Hands, in his own little Ground.

in sorrow yet more dear, "I come!"In vain the soothing accent falls, Alas, it reach'd not her distracted ear.

and vain fears for the future, conjuring up in his mind all sorts of bad luck which may, but most probably never will, happen; and yet from off which he cannot turn his mind.

So in the South; vain every plea 'Gainst Nature's strong fidelity; True to the home and to the heart, Throngs cast their lot with kith and kin, Foreboding, cleaved to the natural part Was this the unforgivable sin?

no more I blame: Why do my thoughts 'midst vain illusions rove?

Then shall all vain imaginations, evil perturbations and superfluous cares fly away; then shall immoderate fear leave thee, and inordinate love shall die.

It would be a weary, and probably vain inquiry to consider minutely the claims which such historical materials have on our belief; and so little is there attractive in the legends of British history, that I need not attempt to dwell upon any of the alleged facts.

But vain our instruction, And blind we must be, Unless with our learning Be knowledge of Thee.

Hence vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred!

"A happy soul, and like to God himself, Whom not vain glory macerates or strife.

And vain the tyrant's mail, Against their battle-hail, Till cease the woe and wail Of tortured slave!

Wise leeches will not vain receipts obtrude, While growing pains pronounce the humours crude: Deaf to complaints, they wait upon the ill, Till some safe crisis authorise their skill.

Vain must be the machinations of my enemies, vain the onslaughts of the rabble, so long as I fulfil a certain contract registered in hell's chancery, as I have now done these three hundred years.