"Isaac Watts" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... later correspondent, S. M., asks whether the hymn "When rising from the bed of death," which he says is "taken from the chapter on 'Death and Judgment,' in Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion," was written by Addison or Dr. Isaac Watts? In what edition of the Evidences does S. M. find either the chapter he speaks of, or this hymn? The place which it occupies is in No. 513. of the Spectator. As I have elsewhere stated, Addison was accustomed to throw a little mystery over these poems; ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 • Various
... "On My Journey Home," hymn by Isaac Watts, found in many of the southern country songbooks ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe |
