The Poetical Works of George Herbert: With Life, Critical Dessertation, and Explanatory NotesJ. Nichol, 1853 - 328 páginas |
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... reliant , and fearless may sometimes err in his judgments ; but he will rarely fail in stirring up the minds of his readers , and commanding admiration even where he does no convince . 3 The Critic . A fitter man could not have.
... reliant , and fearless may sometimes err in his judgments ; but he will rarely fail in stirring up the minds of his readers , and commanding admiration even where he does no convince . 3 The Critic . A fitter man could not have.
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... mind , but he had been able , in a great measure , to realise it in life , before expressing it in poetry . His piety was of a more evangelical cast than Milton's - his purity was tenderer and lovelier he had more of the Christian , and ...
... mind , but he had been able , in a great measure , to realise it in life , before expressing it in poetry . His piety was of a more evangelical cast than Milton's - his purity was tenderer and lovelier he had more of the Christian , and ...
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... mind to the latter step , induced partly by his mother's earnest wish , partly perhaps by disappointment and chagrin , but principally by a deep and growing sense of the vanity of earthly things , and of the grandeur and reality of the ...
... mind to the latter step , induced partly by his mother's earnest wish , partly perhaps by disappointment and chagrin , but principally by a deep and growing sense of the vanity of earthly things , and of the grandeur and reality of the ...
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... mind wrought in a superinduced atmosphere of mysticism , and although he is commonly classed with those whom Dr Johnson calls the metaphysical poets , was by no means naturally or generally a mystic . The form of his writing was ...
... mind wrought in a superinduced atmosphere of mysticism , and although he is commonly classed with those whom Dr Johnson calls the metaphysical poets , was by no means naturally or generally a mystic . The form of his writing was ...
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... mind , and hence the marvellous richness , freedom , and variety of his images . He hangs upon his " Temple " now flowers and now stars , now blossoms and now full - grown fruit . He gathers glories from all regions of thought - from ...
... mind , and hence the marvellous richness , freedom , and variety of his images . He hangs upon his " Temple " now flowers and now stars , now blossoms and now full - grown fruit . He gathers glories from all regions of thought - from ...
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ALPHEUS FELCH art thou beauty Bemerton betimes better blessed blood brave breast bring Christ Christopher Harvey Church dead dear death delight door doth drest dust earth Egypt eyes faults fear fire flesh flower fool George Herbert give glory God's gold grace Greece grief grow hand hath head heart heaven hell Herbert holy honour Jews John Bunyan King leave light live look Lord lost lute man's mind mirth never night once peace pleasure Poets poor posie prayers rich Saviour shine show thyself sigh sing sins sorrow soul spirit stars stay stone sure sweet SWEET Day tears Temple thee thine things thou art thou canst thou didst thou dost thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thoughts thy love thy praise tongue TRINITY SUNDAY unto weep wind wine words
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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 159 - I STRUCK the board, and cry'd, No more. I will abroad. What ? shall I ever sigh and pine ? My lines and life are free; free as the road, Loose as the winde, as large as store.
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 200 - I, the unkind, ungrateful ? Ah, my dear, I cannot look on thee. Love took my hand, and smiling did reply, Who made the eyes but I ? Truth, Lord, but I have marr'd them : let my shame Go where it doth deserve. And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame ? My dear, then I will serve. You must sit down, says Love and taste my meat : So I did sit and eat.
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 184 - How sweetly doth My Master sound ! My Master ! As ambergris leaves a rich scent Unto the taster : So do these words a sweet content, An Oriental fragrancy, My Master. With these all day I do perfume my mind, My mind...
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 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 195 - A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.
Página 59 - Or star, or rainbow, or a part Of all these things, or all of them in one? My God, what is a heart, That thou shouldst it so eye, and woo, Pouring upon it all thy art, As if that thou hadst nothing else to do?