Izaak Walton's Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker and George Herbert |
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... tion of what I shall propose , then return to me with your answer . Deny me not , Mr. Donne ; for it is the effect of a true love , which I would glady pay as a debt due for yours to me . " This request being granted , the Doctor ...
... tion of what I shall propose , then return to me with your answer . Deny me not , Mr. Donne ; for it is the effect of a true love , which I would glady pay as a debt due for yours to me . " This request being granted , the Doctor ...
Page 36
... tion and what concerns it , and will conclude mine with commending to his view a copy of verses given by Mr. Donne to his wife at the time he then parted from her . And I beg leave to tell that I have heard some critics , learned both ...
... tion and what concerns it , and will conclude mine with commending to his view a copy of verses given by Mr. Donne to his wife at the time he then parted from her . And I beg leave to tell that I have heard some critics , learned both ...
Page 66
... tion ; for I have always been sorrier when I could not preach than any could be they could not hear me . It hath been my desire , and God may be pleased to grant it , that I might die in the pulpit ; if not that , yet that I might take ...
... tion ; for I have always been sorrier when I could not preach than any could be they could not hear me . It hath been my desire , and God may be pleased to grant it , that I might die in the pulpit ; if not that , yet that I might take ...
Page 73
... tion to have his immortal soul disrobed from her gar- ment of mortality , makes ine confident that he now had a modest assurance that his prayers were then heard and his petition granted . He lay fifteen days earnestly expecting his ...
... tion to have his immortal soul disrobed from her gar- ment of mortality , makes ine confident that he now had a modest assurance that his prayers were then heard and his petition granted . He lay fifteen days earnestly expecting his ...
Page 83
... tion as might kindle a generous emulation in strangers , and preserve a noble ambition in those of his name and family to perform actions worthy of their ancestors . And that Sir Henry Wotton did so , might appear more perfectly than my ...
... tion as might kindle a generous emulation in strangers , and preserve a noble ambition in those of his name and family to perform actions worthy of their ancestors . And that Sir Henry Wotton did so , might appear more perfectly than my ...
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