Devotions, by J. Donne. With two sermons. i. On the decease of lady Danvers. ii. Death's duel. To which is prefixed, his life, by I. Walton1840 |
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... fear my present discon- tent does not proceed from a good root , that I am so well content to be nothing , that is , dead . But , sir , though my fortune hath made me such , as that I am rather a sickness or a disease of the world ...
... fear my present discon- tent does not proceed from a good root , that I am so well content to be nothing , that is , dead . But , sir , though my fortune hath made me such , as that I am rather a sickness or a disease of the world ...
Page xxxvii
... fear and trembling came upon me , and made all my bones to shake . " Upon which words I will make no comment , but leave them to be considered by the incredulous reader , to whom I also commend this following consideration : —that there ...
... fear and trembling came upon me , and made all my bones to shake . " Upon which words I will make no comment , but leave them to be considered by the incredulous reader , to whom I also commend this following consideration : —that there ...
Page xxxix
... fears ; Men reckon what they did or meant t ; But trepidation of the spheres , Though greater far , is innocent . Dull sublunary lovers ' love ( Whose soul is sense ) cannot admit Absence , because that doth remove Those things that ...
... fears ; Men reckon what they did or meant t ; But trepidation of the spheres , Though greater far , is innocent . Dull sublunary lovers ' love ( Whose soul is sense ) cannot admit Absence , because that doth remove Those things that ...
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... fear to undertake it ; which indeed re- quires such great degrees of humility , and labour , and care , that none but such were then thought worthy of that celestial dignity ; and such only were then sought out , and solicited to ...
... fear to undertake it ; which indeed re- quires such great degrees of humility , and labour , and care , that none but such were then thought worthy of that celestial dignity ; and such only were then sought out , and solicited to ...
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... fears , as common people are not capable of ; not hard to think but that she , being now removed by death , a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had done ; and so indeed it did ; for now his very soul was ...
... fears , as common people are not capable of ; not hard to think but that she , being now removed by death , a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had done ; and so indeed it did ; for now his very soul was ...
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Page 33 - The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger : But they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
Page 54 - Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Page lxii - A Hymn to God the Father Wilt Thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt Thou forgive that sin, through which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore? When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page xli - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Page 135 - Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
Page 185 - And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels...
Page 102 - ... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee!
Page 121 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Page 165 - For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Page lxii - Others to sin, and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score? *° When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore...