The Poetical Works of George Herbert: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory NotesJ. Nichol, 1853 - 328 páginas |
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... hast thou forsaken me ? " and now asking heaven , earth , and hell , " Was ever grief like mine ? " The atonement was his favourite doctrine , and how heavily does he lean all the weight of his hope upon the Cross ! Next to the person ...
... hast thou forsaken me ? " and now asking heaven , earth , and hell , " Was ever grief like mine ? " The atonement was his favourite doctrine , and how heavily does he lean all the weight of his hope upon the Cross ! Next to the person ...
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... thou hast So brave a Palace built ; O dwell in it , That it may dwell with thee at last ! Till then , afford us so much wit That as the world serves us , we may serve thee , And both thy Servants be . " We need not dwell on his minor ...
... thou hast So brave a Palace built ; O dwell in it , That it may dwell with thee at last ! Till then , afford us so much wit That as the world serves us , we may serve thee , And both thy Servants be . " We need not dwell on his minor ...
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... Thou hast two sconces , if thy stomach call ; Carve , or discourse ; do not a famine fear . Who carves , is kind to two ; who talks , to all . Look on meat , think it dirt , then eat a bit ; And say withal , Earth to earth I commit ...
... Thou hast two sconces , if thy stomach call ; Carve , or discourse ; do not a famine fear . Who carves , is kind to two ; who talks , to all . Look on meat , think it dirt , then eat a bit ; And say withal , Earth to earth I commit ...
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... Thou livest by rule . amidst their sickly healths , What doth not so but man ... thee under lock and key . By all means use sometimes to be alone . Salute ... hast gotten . Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone . Never ...
... Thou livest by rule . amidst their sickly healths , What doth not so but man ... thee under lock and key . By all means use sometimes to be alone . Salute ... hast gotten . Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone . Never ...
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... thou hast the vein . Wit's an unruly engine , wildly striking Sometimes a friend , sometimes the engineer : Hast thou the knack ? pamper it not with liking : But if thou want it , buy it not too dear . Many affecting wit beyond their ...
... thou hast the vein . Wit's an unruly engine , wildly striking Sometimes a friend , sometimes the engineer : Hast thou the knack ? pamper it not with liking : But if thou want it , buy it not too dear . Many affecting wit beyond their ...
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Página xiii - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
Página xxxi - THOU, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Página 195 - Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th
Página 160 - All wasted ? Not so, my heart; but there is fruit, And thou hast hands. Recover all thy sigh-blown age On double pleasures: leave thy cold dispute Of what is fit and not; forsake thy cage, Thy rope of sands, Which...
Página xxiv - More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of : in every path He treads down that which doth befriend him When sickness makes him pale and wan. O mighty love ! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.
Página 167 - Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all his treasure Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should...
Página vi - Ireland, who was then chief master of that school ; where the beauties of his pretty behaviour and wit shined and became so eminent and lovely in this his innocent age, that he seemed to be marked out for piety, and to become the care of Heaven, and of a particular good angel to guard and guide him.
Página 88 - My stuff is flesh, not brass; my senses live, And grumble oft that they have more in me Than he that curbs them, being but one to five— Yet I love thee.
Página 18 - Sum up at night what thou hast done by day ; And in the morning, what thou hast to do. Dress and undress thy soul ; mark the decay And growth of it. If, with thy watch, that too Be down, then wind up both. Since we shall be Most surely judged, make thy accounts agree.
Página 37 - With Thee O let me rise As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day Thy victories : Then shall the fall further the flight in me.